thresholds: Fix calculation of hysteresis

The old code would never emit a notification when the value changed between the
WARNING and FAILURE; the reason was that each branch in the switch statement
only checked the "old" thresholds valid for the previously encountered state.
That is wrong and pretty dangerous, as there will be no notification when a
values progresses slowly from OK to WARN to FAIL.

Fixes #578.

diff --git a/src/threshold.c b/src/threshold.c
index a4449741d0c566ee4df8dac7cb196c33e98dd9e5..5215c9ca63a15c744687f239205c16af565214a9 100644 (file)
--- a/src/threshold.c
+++ b/src/threshold.c
@@ -749,23 +749,40 @@ static int ut_check_one_data_source (const data_set_t *ds,
 
   /* XXX: This is an experimental code, not optimized, not fast, not reliable,
    * and probably, do not work as you expect. Enjoy! :D */
-  if ( (th->hysteresis > 0) && ((prev_state = uc_get_state(ds,vl)) != STATE_OKAY) )
+  if (th->hysteresis > 0)
   {
-    switch(prev_state)
+    prev_state = uc_get_state(ds,vl);
+    /* The purpose of hysteresis is elliminating flapping state when the value
+     * oscilates around the thresholds. In other words, what is important is
+     * the previous state; if the new value would trigger a transition, make
+     * sure that we artificially widen the range which is considered to apply
+     * for the previous state, and only trigger the notification if the value
+     * is outside of this expanded range.
+     *
+     * There is no hysteresis for the OKAY state.
+     * */
+    gauge_t hysteresis_for_warning = 0, hysteresis_for_failure = 0;
+    switch (prev_state)
     {
       case STATE_ERROR:
-       if ( (!isnan (th->failure_min) && ((th->failure_min + th->hysteresis) < values[ds_index])) ||
-            (!isnan (th->failure_max) && ((th->failure_max - th->hysteresis) > values[ds_index])) )
-         return (STATE_OKAY);
-       else
-         is_failure++;
+        hysteresis_for_failure = th->hysteresis;
+        break;
       case STATE_WARNING:
-       if ( (!isnan (th->warning_min) && ((th->warning_min + th->hysteresis) < values[ds_index])) ||
-            (!isnan (th->warning_max) && ((th->warning_max - th->hysteresis) > values[ds_index])) )
-         return (STATE_OKAY);
-       else
-         is_warning++;
-     }
+        hysteresis_for_warning = th->hysteresis;
+        break;
+      case STATE_OKAY:
+        /* do nothing -- the hysteresis only applies to the non-normal states */
+        break;
+    }
+
+    if ((!isnan (th->failure_min) && (th->failure_min + hysteresis_for_failure > values[ds_index]))
+       || (!isnan (th->failure_max) && (th->failure_max - hysteresis_for_failure < values[ds_index])))
+      is_failure++;
+
+    if ((!isnan (th->warning_min) && (th->warning_min + hysteresis_for_warning > values[ds_index]))
+       || (!isnan (th->warning_max) && (th->warning_max - hysteresis_for_warning < values[ds_index])))
+      is_warning++;
+
   }
   else { /* no hysteresis */
     if ((!isnan (th->failure_min) && (th->failure_min > values[ds_index]))