Buggy docs for check threshold and ranges?
Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 3:50 pm
I'm new to writing nagios checks. I'm trying to follow the developer guidelines for threshold and ranges (i.e., [@]start:end) but to me the docs seems to be buggy:
http://nagiosplug.sourceforge.net/devel ... HOLDFORMAT
For example, rule #5 (without '@') and #6 (with '@') both state that the ranges are *inclusive*. However, the example that follows in Table 3 seems to indicate that the range is *exclusive* for rule #5 (without '@'). So which is it?
Another example, in Table 4 the last example is "check_stuff -c10:20" with the meaning stated as "Critical if 'stuff' is 10 to 20". But this differs from both the prior example in the same table as well as rule #5 (that without the '@' the value would need to be *outside* the range, not inside of it, to trigger an alert).
Am I using the correct, up-to-date docs? If not, which docs should I be using? If I am using the correct docs, can someone please tell me what the correct behavior should be (and also ideally fix the docs)?
Thanks!
- Rob
http://nagiosplug.sourceforge.net/devel ... HOLDFORMAT
For example, rule #5 (without '@') and #6 (with '@') both state that the ranges are *inclusive*. However, the example that follows in Table 3 seems to indicate that the range is *exclusive* for rule #5 (without '@'). So which is it?
Another example, in Table 4 the last example is "check_stuff -c10:20" with the meaning stated as "Critical if 'stuff' is 10 to 20". But this differs from both the prior example in the same table as well as rule #5 (that without the '@' the value would need to be *outside* the range, not inside of it, to trigger an alert).
Am I using the correct, up-to-date docs? If not, which docs should I be using? If I am using the correct docs, can someone please tell me what the correct behavior should be (and also ideally fix the docs)?
Thanks!
- Rob