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authorGravatar Ton Voon <ton.voon@opsera.com> 2009-09-24 10:33:23 +0100
committerGravatar Ton Voon <ton.voon@opsera.com> 2009-09-24 10:33:23 +0100
commit53efa53d5de82631accb2ac98c876f9fa477d19d (patch)
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parent1a18f4c77526129fb09c4d3490d71601a5464c11 (diff)
downloadmonitoring-plugins-53efa53d5de82631accb2ac98c876f9fa477d19d.tar.gz
Updated documentation re: no equals sign and single quote
-rw-r--r--NEWS3
-rw-r--r--doc/developer-guidelines.sgml4
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 69234285..414ec679 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ This file documents the major additions and syntax changes between releases.
Fix check_ircd binding to wrong interface (#668778)
Add proxy-authorization option to check_http (Marcel Kuiper - #1323230, Bryan Irvine - #2863925)
WARNINGS
- Updated developer documentation to say that performance labels should not have an equals sign in the label
+ Updated developer documentation to say that performance labels should not have an equals sign or
+ single quote in the label
1.4.14 16th September 2009
check_http has options to specify the HTTP method (#2155152)
diff --git a/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml b/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml
index 3567841a..d6c7c075 100644
--- a/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml
+++ b/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml
@@ -333,10 +333,10 @@
<orderedlist>
<listitem><para>space separated list of label/value pairs</para>
</listitem>
- <listitem><para>label can contain any characters</para>
+ <listitem><para>label can contain any characters except the equals sign or single quote (')</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>the single quotes for the label are optional. Required if
- spaces, = or ' are in the label</para>
+ spaces are in the label</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>label length is arbitrary, but ideally the first 19 characters
are unique (due to a limitation in RRD). Be aware of a limitation in the