The following arguments and options are required and understood by collectd-nagios. The order of the
arguments generally doesn't matter, as long as no argument is passed more than once.
-ssocket
Path of the UNIX socket opened by collectd's "unixsock plugin".
-nvalue_spec
The value to read from collectd. The argument is in the form "plugin[-instance]/type[-instance]".
-Hhostname
Hostname to query the values for.
-ddata_source
Each value_spec may be made of multiple "data sources". With this option you can select one or more
data sources. To select multiple data sources simply specify this option again. If multiple data
sources are examined they are handled according to the consolidation function given with the -g
option.
-gnone|average|sum
When multiple data sources are selected from a value spec, they can be handled differently depending
on this option. The values of the following meaning:
none
No consolidation if done and the warning and critical regions are applied to each value
independently.
average
The warning and critical ranges are applied to the average of all values.
sum The warning and critical ranges are applied to the sum of all values.
percentage
The warning and critical ranges are applied to the ratio (in percent) of the first value and the
sum of all values. A warning is returned if the first value is not defined or if all values sum
up to zero.
-crange-wrange
Set the critical (-c) and warning (-w) ranges. These options mostly follow the normal syntax of
Nagios plugins. The general format is "min:max". If a value is smaller than min or bigger than max, a
warning or critical status is returned, otherwise the status is success.
The tilde sign (~) can be used to explicitly specify infinity. If ~ is used as a min value, negative
infinity is used. In case of max, it is interpreted as positive infinity.
If the first character of the range is the at sign (@), the meaning of the range will be inverted.
I. e. all values within the range will yield a warning or critical status, while all values outside
the range will result in a success status.
min (and the colon) may be omitted, min is then assumed to be zero. If max (but not the trailing
colon) is omitted, max is assumed to be positive infinity.
-m If this option is given, "Not a Number" (NaN) is treated as critical. By default, the none
consolidation reports NaNs as warning. Other consolidations simply ignore NaN values.