nagiostats Config Parameters

[Jochen Bern]

On 05/11/2012 09:34 PM, Jochen Bern wrote:
> Everyone,
> I played with the "-c" and "-s" Parameters of a 3.2.3's nagiostats today
> and noticed the odd behavior shown below. I didn't look at the source
> yet, much less write a patch, but I thought you might want to check on
> 3.3.x and 3.4.x beforehand (and maybe extend t/705nagiostats.t a bit).

To answer my own (implied) question:

base/nagiostats.c uses a different subroutine, read_nagiostats_file(),
to read and parse a status file named by the -s option; when parsing
nagios.cfg (default or -c option) and grabbing the value of the
status_file directive there, read_status_file() is used instead.

As far as I can tell, read_status_file() matches the current status.dat
syntax, while read_nagiostats_file() expects a format that plain isn't
to be found anywhere else anymore. For example, it's the only place in
the code where I can find the string "nagios_version", which it parses for.

The figure nagiostats outputs for NUMSVCOK (the one I focused on in my
last post - *not* the only one resulting in wrong numbers) is actually
*counted* in status.dat by read_status_file(), while
read_nagiostats_file() expects it to be *stated* as "services_ok" in the
file read; again, this seems to be the only place in the code where
"services_ok" appears *as a string* (rather than a variable of the same
name).

Any chance that the -s option might be reappropriated to read the
current status.dat files via read_status_file(), rather than a format
lost in the sands of time ... ?

Kind regards,
								J. Bern
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