[Nagiosplug-devel] perforrmance data for check_http/check_smtp/check_tcp

[Karl DeBisschop]

On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 23:18, Subhendu Ghosh wrote:
> integers would be nice - is micro seconds a realistic granularity or is 
> one-hundredths better?

us is what gettimeofday returns - its easiest to implement in the
plugins.

The cuurent plan for perf data has time defaulting to units of seconds
(s) - otherwise the unit lable is no longer optional. So the both 1.3
and 1.4 will comply with those (developing) guidelines.

--
Karl

> either way - integers and minimal backward compatability.
> 
> -sg
> 
> On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Karl DeBisschop wrote:
> 
> > In the 1.3.0 release, as a straw man for people to comment on, I put in
> > code for perforance data for a few plugins.
> > 
> > Where the data was time, I put the value in as seconds like 'time=0.045'
> > 
> > As we worked out ideas for more complete implementation of perf data in
> > 1.4.0, in became clear that RRDtool/MRTG type solutions were a notable
> > part of what people want to do with perf data.
> > 
> > >From my scan of docs for these tools, there would be less work in the
> > perf data collecter to report integer us rather than float seconds.
> > 
> > So I'm proposing to change that in the currently implemented plugins so
> > the data will be 'time=45123us'
> > 
> > Does that sound like the right approach to people, or should I preserve
> > the old format even if it mean a little extara porcessing work.
> > 
> > --
> > Karl
> > 
> > 
> >