[Nagiosplug-devel] RFC: Plugin API Changes

[Andreas Ericsson]

Ethan Galstad wrote:
> On 28 Feb 2006 at 10:52, Jason Martin wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 12:10:02PM -0600, Ethan Galstad wrote:
>>
>>>Line1: "Short output | Perf1"
>>>Line2: "Long output 1"
>>>Line3: "Long output 2"
>>>Line4: "Long output3 | Perf2"
>>>Line5: "Perf3"
>>>Line6: "Perf4"
>>>$SERVICEOUTPUT$="Short output"
>>>$PERFDATA$="Perf1 Perf2 Perf3 Perf4"
>>>$LONGSERVICEOUTPUT$="Long output 1\nLong output2\nLong output3\n"
> 
> 
>>How does Nagios differentiate between Line2 being 'long output'
>>and line5 being perfdata? Both follow a line with a | character
>>in it.
> 
> 
> Any additional lines (beyond the first one) are considered standard 
> text output and made a part of the $LONGSERVICEOUTPUT$ macro.  Once a 
> pipe symbol is found in those additional lines, anything after that 
> symbol (including additional full lines of text) are considered to be 
> performance data.
> 

Seems like a tricky rule. Why not just stick with current behaviour 
(that is, first pipe-char splits output and perf-data)? One can already 
do multiple perf-data entries with that, using the current parsers.

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