Ben Clewett wrote:
>
> Dear members, I have has the following possible bug reported to me. Can
> anybody clarify this? Regards, Ben.
>
> I'm having the following problem with Nagios in combination with the
> perfparse tool:
>
> When a certain check generates performance data with space characters in
> the metric with single quotes around them, the single quotes *disappear*
> when the information is written to the perfdata-service.log file. As a
> result, the performance data gets parsed incorrectly by perfparse.
>
> For example, if I do the following check manually:
> $ check_nt -H rlswas1c -v CPULOAD -l 5,50,90
> The result is something like:
> CPU Load 0% (5 min average) |'5 min avg Load'=0%;50;90;0;100
> Notice the single quotes around '5 min avg Load'.
>
> However, if I let Nagios do the check, the following data appears in the
> perfdata-service.log file:
> 1101131232 rlswas1c CPU load CPU Load 0% (5 min average)
> OK 5 min avg Load=0%;50;75;0;100
> Notice that there are NO single quotes around '5 min avg Load'.
>
> Does anyone have an idea where the quotes are being dropped and what I can
> do about it?
>
Look up the code. I think Nagios needs to write perfdata before
stripping the illegal macro chars, or perfparse needs to be tolerant and
guess there are spaces present when perfdata output doesn't make sense.
It should be fairly trivial to fix either way.
> I'm using:
> Nagios 1.2
> PerfParse 0.103.1
> A recent CVS snapshot of Nagios-plugins
>
>
>
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