Re: [Perfparse-users] Re: "unknown" values

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

The specification states that 'warning' and 'critical' are always above 
the line.  There is a more advanced option which allows the user to 
specify a range.  But this is not fully supported in PP at the moment. 
It is planned.

Ben


J Paston wrote:
> On 11/7/05, *J Paston* <pa...@gm... <mailto: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 might 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 or below a given critical value is "good" or "bad"?