performance data not written when lacking performance data

[Andreas Ericsson]

On 08/15/2011 10:36 AM, joe.price at vaisala.com wrote:
> ...yes... I know the title is laughable.
> 

Quite. It's nice to have a giggle waiting in the mail when one gets back
from vacation though ;)

> 
> So back on 3.2.3 I had a couple of checks with 'output' only, no
> 'performance data'. 'Performance data' was still written to the file
> specified, which was then processed by nagiosgraph.
> 

If there was no performance data, how could any be written?

> 
> Onto 3.3.1 and performance data isn't written at all if there is no
> 'performance data', even if there is 'output'.
> 
> 
> 
> I don't see anything specific about this on the changelog:
> http://www.nagios.org/projects/nagioscore/history/core-3x (though still
> other perf data changes) and so I'm wondering if this change in
> behaviour was intended, if it'll be reverted? Of even if it should never
> have been relied upon in the first place? O
>

It should never have been relied on in the first place.

> 
> Its prompted me to ensure my nagios plugin outputs the correct data for
> a pretty graph so not the end of the world!
> 

Yay! ;)

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