Testing the upcoming release

[Jochen Bern]

On 06/27/2012 07:05 PM, Jochen Bern wrote:
> On 06/27/2012 04:04 PM, Holger Weiß wrote:
>> Then again, according to
>> 	http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/pluginapi.html
>> the old output might be interpreted as a valid way to spit out
>> performance data (even though the first line contains no perfdata part).
>> I wouldn't have been sure whether Nagios actually passes this on as
>> performance data, but it seems you were able to use it?
> 
> I can't say that I've tested it systematically, but I'm not aware of any
> problems in parsing multiline syntax in Nagios 3.x. Guess I'll slap a
> test plugin together, just in case ...

As it turns out, there *is* a small gotcha in how my 3.2.3 processes the
full-blown multiline format:


# ../libexec/check_multiline
Play Rock|foo=1 bar=2
Paper Scissors
Lizard Spock|baz=3 org=4
eeny=5 meeny=6
miny=7 moe=8
# grep -A 2 Play ../var/spool/status.dat
        plugin_output=Play Rock
        long_plugin_output=Paper Scissors\nLizard Spock
        performance_data=foo=1 bar=2baz=3 org=4 eeny=5 meeny=6 miny=7 moe=8


(Note the missing whitespace between bar and baz. My test plugin doesn't
*provide* any whitespace there other than the EOL, on purpose, of course.)

I wonder how 3.3.x and 3.4.x handle this case ... ?

Regards,
								J. Bern
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