Re: [Nagios-devel] performance data not written when lacking
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 12:28 pm
On 08/15/2011 10:36 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> ...yes... I know the title is laughable.
>
Quite. It's nice to have a giggle waiting in the mail when one gets back
from vacation though
>
> So back on 3.2.3 I had a couple of checks with 'output' only, no
> 'performance data'. 'Performance data' was still written to the file
> specified, which was then processed by nagiosgraph.
>
If there was no performance data, how could any be written?
>
> Onto 3.3.1 and performance data isn't written at all if there is no
> 'performance data', even if there is 'output'.
>
>
>
> I don't see anything specific about this on the changelog:
> http://www.nagios.org/projects/nagiosco ... ry/core-3x (though still
> other perf data changes) and so I'm wondering if this change in
> behaviour was intended, if it'll be reverted? Of even if it should never
> have been relied upon in the first place? O
>
It should never have been relied on in the first place.
>
> Its prompted me to ensure my nagios plugin outputs the correct data for
> a pretty graph so not the end of the world!
>
Yay!
--
Andreas Ericsson [email protected]
OP5 AB www.op5.se
Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231
Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and
terror, I think we should give some serious thought to declaring war
on peace.
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Original poster: [email protected]
> ...yes... I know the title is laughable.
>
Quite. It's nice to have a giggle waiting in the mail when one gets back
from vacation though
>
> So back on 3.2.3 I had a couple of checks with 'output' only, no
> 'performance data'. 'Performance data' was still written to the file
> specified, which was then processed by nagiosgraph.
>
If there was no performance data, how could any be written?
>
> Onto 3.3.1 and performance data isn't written at all if there is no
> 'performance data', even if there is 'output'.
>
>
>
> I don't see anything specific about this on the changelog:
> http://www.nagios.org/projects/nagiosco ... ry/core-3x (though still
> other perf data changes) and so I'm wondering if this change in
> behaviour was intended, if it'll be reverted? Of even if it should never
> have been relied upon in the first place? O
>
It should never have been relied on in the first place.
>
> Its prompted me to ensure my nagios plugin outputs the correct data for
> a pretty graph so not the end of the world!
>
Yay!
--
Andreas Ericsson [email protected]
OP5 AB www.op5.se
Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231
Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and
terror, I think we should give some serious thought to declaring war
on peace.
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Original poster: [email protected]