[Nagiosplug-devel] RFC: New threshold syntax

[Thomas Guyot-Sionnest]

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On 19/03/08 05:48 PM, Max wrote:
> Thomas, Ton,
> 
> Do both of you think that using RPN-style notation would be too
> burdensome on users?  It resolves a lot of the issues you are
> discussing and meets Andreas' request to have argument parsing done in
> a fashion that doesn't cause compatibility issues with buggy /
> problematic shells ...
> 
> CPU check ...
> 
> --warning 'kernel,80%,gte,system,90%,gte' --critical 'system,99%,gt'
> 
> Range check
> 
> --warning 'bpm,60,120,notwithin'
> 
> where order is
> 
> metric,number[,number]?,operator
> 
> Something along those lines?

Well, if you want something like that why not making it like my
suggestion which:

1. is a bit clearer: just like your example but using name=value pairs
instead of values alone
2. Is a standard way of specifying parameters, and is parseable using
standard libraries.

Thomas
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