Regarding Nagios Plugin Performance Data

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marirs
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Joined: Thu Oct 01, 2015 1:11 am

Regarding Nagios Plugin Performance Data

Post by marirs »

Hello All,

I found Nagios Plugins very useful and flexible.

I faced a slight difficulty when it comes to analyzing the performance data of the plugins.

There are more than 1000 plugins available under nagios I have tested some of it and it seems only 50% of the plugins are only producing the output as per the format mentioned in your official website.

One example which comes to my mind while writing this is check_TomcatApplications.sh.

This outputs as 'server_JVM_OK:|server_JVM_MB;;;0 server_JVM_MB;;;0 server_JVM_MB;;;0
server_ OK:|_maxTime=0ms;;;0 _processingTime=0ms;;;0 _requestCount=0ms;;;0 _errorCount=0ms;;;0 _bytesReceived=0ms;;;0 _bytesSent=0ms;;;0
server_ OK:|_maxTime=51ms;;;0 _processingTime=754ms;;;0 _requestCount=542ms;;;0 _errorCount=323ms;;;0 _bytesReceived=0ms;;;0 _bytesSent=1008999ms;;;0'

Can some one help me how to proceed on these kind of plugin outputs.
jdalrymple
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Re: Regarding Nagios Plugin Performance Data

Post by jdalrymple »

We publish the guidelines and encourage people to use them. We also make the Exchange available for developers to share their plugins (hard work) and even put out a ratings system to allow users such as yourself to rate and offer feedback to the developers.

I encourage you to put comments in the Exchange page for any plugins indicating how you want to see them changed/improved, the developer will be notified. As for controlling what goes into the Exchange, we would prefer to see a partially working plugin contributed by the author than none at all and then rely on your ratings and feedback for them to improve the usefulness.
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