new plugin can i send here for peer review?
Subhendu Ghosh
sghosh at sghosh.org
Thu Jan 16 17:27:09 CET 2003
On 16 Jan 2003, Karl DeBisschop wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 10:52, jgking at packetstorm.org wrote:
> > Well if check_snmp allowed me to do something like this i would be set:
> >
> > ./check_snmp -H localhost -C ***** -o a.a.a.a,b.b.b.b -func "($1/$2) * 100
> > > 90"
> >
> > Where the OID order determines $1,$2 etc
> >
> > so I could use oids for disk usage where a.a.a.a would be current usage,
> > b.b.b.b is total space available
>
> That is exactly the sort of functionality I'd like to have directly in
> check_snmp.
>
> That's been on my long-term plan for some time now. So I'm suggesting
> that you'd get what you want into the distribution quickest by helping
> develop that sort of generalized engine for check_snmp. It will be there
> someday, so let's just do it once.
>
Exactly - I think if we agree to support only one math/arithmetic function
and use a,b,c,... as place holders for the value, it should definitely be
in the generalized engine.
--
-sg
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