developer-guidelines.sgml: Allow special value "U"

Allow a literal "U" to be specified in place of an actual value within
the performance data string.  An "U" corresponds to RRDtool's "UNKNOWN"
value; i.e., it's meant to indicate that data acquisition failed for
some reason.  PNP4Nagios already supports this extension.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml b/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml
index d7b7a773..6b6f7357 100644
--- a/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml
+++ b/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml
@@ -347,7 +347,8 @@
                 <listitem><para>min and max are not required if UOM=%</para>
                         </listitem>
                 <listitem><para>value, min and max in class [-0-9.]. Must all be the
-                        same UOM</para>
+                        same UOM. value may be a literal "U" instead, this would indicate that the
+                        actual value couldn't be determined</para>
                         </listitem>
                 <listitem><para>warn and crit are in the range format (see 
                         <xref linkend="thresholdformat">). Must be the same UOM</para>