nagiostats Config Parameters

[Andreas Ericsson]

On 05/18/2012 12:52 AM, Jochen Bern wrote:
> 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 ... ?
> 

Sounds like you've already done a large part of the analysis, so it might
be good if you did the patch as well.

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