NAME

Nagios::Plugin::Performance - class for handling Nagios::Plugin performance data.

SYNOPSIS

use Nagios::Plugin::Performance;

# Constructor (also accepts a 'threshold' obj instead of warning/critical)
$p = Nagios::Plugin::Performance->new(
    label     => 'size',
    value     => $value,
    uom       => "kB",
    warning   => $warning,
    critical  => $critical,
    min       => $min,
    max       => $max,
);

# Parser
@perf = Nagios::Plugin::Performance->parse_perfstring(
    "/=382MB;15264;15269;; /var=218MB;9443;9448"
) 
or warn("Failed to parse perfstring");

# Accessors
for $p (@perf) {
  printf "label:    %s\n",   $p->label;
  printf "value:    %s\n",   $p->value;
  printf "uom:      %s\n",   $p->uom;
  printf "warning:  %s\n",   $p->warning;
  printf "critical: %s\n",   $p->critical;
  printf "min:      %s\n",   $p->min;
  printf "max:      %s\n",   $p->max;
  # Special accessor returning a threshold obj containing warning/critical
  $threshold = $p->threshold;
}

# Perfdata output format i.e. label=value[uom];[warn];[crit];[min];[max]
print $p->perfoutput;

DESCRIPTION

Nagios::Plugin class for handling performance data. This is a public interface because it could be used by performance graphing routines, such as nagiostat (http://nagiostat.sourceforge.net), perfparse (http://perfparse.sourceforge.net), nagiosgraph (http://nagiosgraph.sourceforge.net) or NagiosGrapher (http://www.nagiosexchange.org/NagiosGrapher.84.0.html).

Nagios::Plugin::Performance offers both a parsing interface (via parse_perfstring), for turning nagios performance output strings into their components, and a composition interface (via new), for turning components into perfdata strings.

CLASS METHODS

Nagios::Plugin::Performance->new(%attributes)

Instantiates a new Nagios::Plugin::Performance object with the given attributes.

Nagios::Plugin::Performance->parse_perfstring($string)

Returns an array of Nagios::Plugin::Performance objects based on the string entered. If there is an error parsing the string, an empty array is returned.

OBJECT METHODS (ACCESSORS)

label, value, uom, warning, critical, min, max

These all return scalars. min and max are not well supported yet.

threshold

Returns a Nagios::Plugin::Threshold object holding the warning and critical ranges for this performance data (if any).

rrdlabel

Returns a string based on 'label' that is suitable for use as dataset name of an RRD i.e. munges label to be 1-19 characters long with only characters [a-zA-Z0-9_].

There is no guarantee that multiple N:P:Performance objects will have unique rrdlabels.

perfoutput

Outputs the data in Nagios::Plugin perfdata format i.e. label=value[uom];[warn];[crit];[min];[max].

SEE ALSO

Nagios::Plugin, Nagios::Plugin::Threshold, http://nagiosplug.sourceforge.net.

AUTHOR

This code is maintained by the Nagios Plugin Development Team: see http://nagiosplug.sourceforge.net.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2006-2007 Nagios Plugin Development Team

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.