[Nagiosplug-devel] Patch for persistent data on plugins

Alain Williams addw at phcomp.co.uk
Thu Sep 17 16:45:29 CEST 2009


On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 03:32:23PM +0100, Ton Voon wrote:

> I think this actually shows that Nagios should interpret the perfdata.  
> If nagios stored the previous values, then it can work out things like  
> rate changes.

+1

Nagios is doing all the work and just remembering 3 values: OK, Warn, Crititcal.

Keeping real values (where appropriate) would be great for trend analysis and make
Nagios much more useful. OK: Nagios doesn't want to keep them for long, but needs
a path to be able to dump them to a database/...

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