How to make check_ntp NOT report its offset performance data using scientific notation?

[Assaf Flatto]

Hello 

Can you post your  a section of your nagiosgraph.log that shows that data retrieved for the ntp 
check and the related section from the map file ?

Those two things will help a lot .

Assaf

On Thursday 28 May 2009 13:49:31 Steffen Poulsen wrote:
> We were wondering, is there any possible way we can avoid having check_nrpe
> report its offset performance data in scientific notation?
>
> We would like to graph the offset under all circumstances, but sometimes it
> is unfortunately reported as:
>
> offset=2.577755367e-05
>
> And this gives us some trouble, as we would of course like to avoid having
> this graphed as 2.577 seconds (we are currently using NagiosGrapher for
> graphing).
>
> If NagiosGrapher can be tweaked to accept the scientific notation reported,
> that would be another useful strategy - please enlighten us if you know how
> to achieve this .. :-)
>
> ---
>
> Just for curiosity, what we currently do when graphing is accepting only
> the checks that do not use scientific notation:
>
> 2009-05-28 15:32:54 PIPE: fqdn     check_ntp       offset=2.577755367e-05 
> offset=2.577755367e-05 2009-05-28 15:32:54 REGEX: 1 blocks for 'check_ntp'
> found.
> 2009-05-28 15:32:54 REGEX: graph_value=difference
> 2009-05-28 15:32:54 REGEX: output=perfdata
> 2009-05-28 15:32:54 REGEX: regex=m/offset=([-+\d]+\.\d+)(s| |$)/i
> 2009-05-28 15:32:54 REGEX: perfdata=offset=2.577755367e-05
> 2009-05-28 15:32:54 REGEX: NO MATCH.
>
> Best regards,
> Steffen Poulsen
>
> --
>
> Venlig hilsen / Best regards
>
> Steffen Poulsen
> UNIX System Administrator
> TDC Hosting A/S
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