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diff --git a/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml b/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml index ad6f59e9..82dbecaa 100644 --- a/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml +++ b/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml @@ -196,12 +196,18 @@ </section> - <section id="thresholdformat"><title>Threshold range format</title> - <para>Thresholds ranges define the warning and critical levels for plugins to - alert on. The theory is that the plugin will do some sort of check which returns + <section id="thresholdformat"><title>Threshold and ranges</title> + <para>A range is defined as a start and end point (inclusive) on a numeric scale (possibly + negative or positive infinity). + </para> + <para>A threshold is a range with an alert level (either warning or critical). Use the + set_thresholds(thresholds *, char *, char *) function to set the thresholds. + </para> + <para>The theory is that the plugin will do some sort of check which returns back a numerical value, or metric, which is then compared to the warning and - critical thresholds. - This is the generalised format for threshold ranges:</para> + critical thresholds. Use the get_status(double, thresholds *) function to + compare the value against the thresholds.</para> + <para>This is the generalised format for ranges:</para> <literallayout> [@]start:end @@ -226,10 +232,8 @@ </listitem> </orderedlist> - <para>Note: Not all plugins are coded to expect ranges in this format. It is - planned for a future release to - provide standard libraries to parse and compare metrics against ranges. There - will also be some work in providing multiple metrics.</para> + <para>Note: Not all plugins are coded to expect ranges in this format yet. + There will be some work in providing multiple metrics.</para> </section> <section><title>Performance data</title> |