Hi Chet, We've been using the checks and just running thresholds against the performance data, without the -w,-c, and -t parameters on the checks. That way we could set the same threshold against multiple checks without having to update each command.
Though, since this works (tested this morning) having to modify the checks are a small price to pay. -- though it also brings up a possible feature request to include the output of a check when a threshold is hit. Thanks again! -trey On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Chet Luther <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mar 26, 2009, at 4:52 PM, g3vt wrote: > > We're working on a customized check for our website, and whenever > > there's an error on a page, we return a transaction ID. Does > > anybody have any experience returning a non-numeric "performance > > data" from a nagios style check? I'd like to get the transaction > > number into the alert email, or even the details for the alert, but > > I haven't been able to figure out a way to trigger on a threshold > > and then pass that id from the output of the check to the event > > handler system. > > > > We're trying to avoid using a wrapper script as this would double > > the number of system calls for the check. > > If you're using the Nagios style output format for your check, you can > simply stick the transaction ID before the pipe (|). If the check > returns a 1 or 2 exit code, the text before the pipe will be put into > the event's summary and message fields. Both of these are available in > the default alert email message. > > Example output on a successful check (exit with code 0): > OK|dp1=123 dp2=978 > > Example output on a failed check (exit with code 1): > transaction TID### failed|dpt1=0 dp2=0 > > Even if you're not returning any performance data from your command > you should terminate the line with a pipe to make sure the Nagios > parser knows what to do. > _______________________________________________ > zenoss-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users >
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