On 05/25/2010 06:47 PM, Mohammed Murphy wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> It's been awhile since the last time I mailed to this list and I am
> still extremely grateful for all the help I got last time. On this
> occasion, I want to simply ask about the usages of performance data.
> That is, if a user defined plugin decides to return a 'perfdata' string,
> what can you do with it? Are there any default cgi's that work with it?
> What is the main usage paradigm here? And finally, are there any common
> alternatives to returning a 'perfdata' string when a plugin wants to
> return usage data.
>
> I look forward to your responses and I thank you in advance.
>
perfdata is usable for graphing with tools such as pnp4nagios. Since
properly formatted performance data provides everything pnp4nagios
needs to create very nifty graphs from rrd files, very little additional
configuration has to be done.
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