[Perfparse-users] Re: "unknown" values

[J P. <pa...@gm...>]

On 11/7/05, J Paston <pa...@gm...> wrote:
>
> Hello.
> It seems that quite a few nagios plugins written in C set a type for the
> performance data, and return that. So if the plugin fails, the plugin mig=
ht
> return 0.00 for a piece of performance data.
>
> How can perfparse handle this?
> I mean without perfparse assuming the value is correct, and drawing a
> critical area on the chart?
>
> Thanks
>

Actually, come to think of it, how does perfparse know what a value above o=
r
below a given critical value is "good" or "bad"?