Re: [Perfparse-users] performance data in Nagios

[Garrett H. <gh...@3g...>]

On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 14:54 +0200, Frederik Vanhee wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm doing some experiments with performance data, but experience some 
> strange behaviour
> I have a plugin 'check_iftraffic.pl' that returns this :
> 
> Total RX Bytes : 145.74 MB, Total TX Bytes: 242,75 MB, Average Traffic: 
> 2,89 kB/s (0,0%) in, 6,25 kB/s (0,0%) out | inUsage=0.0,85,98 
> outUsage=0.0,85,98
> 
> In nagios.cfg, I put 'process_performance_data=1'
> So I expect that Nagios splits the plugin output in two Macros :
> The text before the | should be the service output and the text after 
> the | should be recognized as performance data
> 
> $SERVICEOUTPUT$=Total RX Bytes : 145.74 MB, Total TX Bytes: 242,75 MB, 
> Average Traffic: 2,89 kB/s (0,0%) in, 6,25 kB/s (0,0%) out
> $SERVICEPERFDATA$=inUsage=0.0,85,98 outUsage=0.0,85,98
> 
> Instead of what I expect, Nagios drops the text before the | and the 
> text after the | is treated as the plugin output, so in my status-cgi's, 
> I get :
> 
> inUsage=0.0,85,98 outUsage=0.0,85,98
> 
> and I don't get any performance data.
> 
> I thought it had something to do with an illegal character, this is what 
> I have in nagios.cfg :
> illegal_macro_output_chars=`~$&|'"<>
> 
> 
> Any hints ?
> Apart from perfparse, what programs are you using to interpret 
> performance data ?
> 
> Thanks,
> Frederik
> 

http://nagiosplug.sourceforge.net/developer-guidelines.html

You should use semicolons instead of commas as the delimiter. Also, make
sure you are returning the values in the correct order. 

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'label'=value[UOM];[warn];[crit];[min];[max]
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Hope this gets you going,
-g
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