[Nagiosplug-devel] Question about a documentation ambiguity (Thresholds)

[Ton Voon]

On 15 Mar 2010, at 16:10, Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote:

> Hi all.
>
> What is the right way to handle thresholds when developing Nagios  
> plugins?
>
> The documentation (http://nagiosplug.sourceforge.net/developer-guidelines.html#THRESHOLDFORMAT 
> ) says:
>
> 8x------
> 10:20 Generate an alert if x < 10 or > 20, (outside the range of  
> {10 .. 20})
> 8x------
>
> while few rows below says:
>
> 8x------
> check_stuff -c10:20 Critical if "stuff" is 10 to 20
> 8x------
>
> What is the right behaviour? (In my opinion, the second one is much  
> clearer, however check_snmp works like described in the first case...)

The 1st is correct. I've updated the docs for the 2nd.

I agree that the 2nd looks much cleaner. We've just not got round to  
changing this: http://nagiosplugins.org/rfc/new_threshold_syntax

Ton

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