[Nagiosplug-devel] RFC: Plugin API Changes

[Ethan Galstad]

On 28 Feb 2006 at 20:53, Andreas Ericsson wrote:

> 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.
> 

Just to make things clear, each of the "Perfx" components in the 
above example can contain multiple perf data entries.  The additional 
perf data lines are present to allow for more (optional) perf data 
that could potentially break backward compatability in terms of line 
length if it was all on the first line.

If all the perf data entries can fit on the first line, that's great. 
 If not, some of them can be appended in later lines as described 
above.  Either way, any perf data entries found will get concatenated 
into the $xPERFDATA$ macros.

So the current plugins run just fine as they are, but the new design 
allows for longer output and perf data if necessary.





Ethan Galstad,
Nagios Developer
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