[Nagiosplug-devel] Best practice for thresholding

[John Vincent]

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Ton Voon<ton.voon at opsera.com> wrote:
>
> On 22 Jun 2009, at 18:22, John Vincent wrote:
>
>> So I've been attempting to use check_memcached and in the process was
>> cleaning up some invalid perfdata output. I also noticed that the
>> thresholding is somewhat broken. This plugin, like many database
>> plugins, has a hit ratio metric. Hit ratio metrics make the most sense
>> when approcahed from a "warning/critical below X%" (at least in my
>> mind). So if my hit ratio drops below 75%, I want a warning and if it
>> goes below 50% I want a critical.
>>
>> What's the best way to handle this with Nagios::Plugin? Should the
>> logic be done in the script or should it be done in the module itself?
>
> Nagios::Plugin already supports the thresholds defined in the guidelines:
> http://nagiosplug.sourceforge.net/developer-guidelines.html#THRESHOLDFORMAT
>
> So you should already be able to use the threshold routines in N::P.
>
> If it doesn't work properly, then that would be a bug.
>
> Ton
>
>

Ahh okay. Thanks Ton. I wasn't looking hard enough to find what I
needed. I was simply looking at it from a greater than/less than
scenario as opposed to being outside a given range.