[Perfparse-users] Plugins not working

[Ben C. <BCl...@pe...>]

A general note about plugins.

Since the start of PerfParse this has been a real battle.  Only recently 
did the standard distribution have any performance data.  What we did 
have was sometimes wrong or badly formatted.  Our PP developer Garry 
Cook was kind enough to organize a fix for many of them.  However a lot 
of these fixes never made it to the distribution.

I am glad to say where has been big change in the plugin development. 
Ton Voon is now drawing together all patches and working hard to get a 
quality release soon.  One of these aims it to ensure all standard 
plugins produce good performance data, which work on all major platforms.

So thankfully soon these problems of some metrics not appearing because 
of bad performance data will be a thing of the past.

In the mean while I strongly suggest that if you have any issue with 
missing or bad performance data, please get the absolute latest plugins:

http://nagiosplug.sourceforge.net/snapshot/

(marked nagios-plugins-HEAD-200411190547.tar.gz)

Check that your problems have been fixed.  If not, contact the 
nagiosplug-devel news group and report any errors.

Thanks!


Carsten Franke wrote:

> Maybe I can use some of the standard plugins and maybe the output of 
> them will be stored correctly and I see some performance graphs for them.

> PS: Do you still need a translator? I could do this for Germany.

Yes, and yes please!  Wait until the next version, or get the 
pre-release from here:

http://pagesperso.laposte.net/ymettier/perfparse-devel/perfparse-0.104.0/

I am sure Yves can do an introduction into how this is used.


Regards, Ben.