Plugin output question

[Karl DeBisschop]

On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 16:59, Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy wrote:
> Hello all.
> 
> I have just signed up for nagios maiiling lists, and I am not sure if 
> this question belongs here or somewhere else.
> I am setting up nagios on our site, to monitor few hundreds UNIX boxes. 
> I have created a plugin to monitor disk usage, different from the 
> default in the way that it monitors all the localy mounted file systems. 
> As output I have included something like this:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> <font color="green">OK: / (/dev/sda2) - 76% (2.4G of 
> 3.3G)<br></font><font color="green">OK: /var (/dev/sda3) - 7% (321M of 
> 4.8G)<br></font>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Try the check_disk on CVS HEAD -- it does what you want, but a tighter
output format. (Except thet you have to look for asterick to see whihc
partition is the problem (because html exceeds the line lentgh limit)

> where it would change the service state if any of the FSs went beyond 
> the limit and highlight the line with the particular mount point in red.
> Since some of our Sun servers have quite a few mount points, I ran into 
> the plugin output limit. I have changed the value of 
> MAX_PLUGINOUTPUT_LENGTH to 1024, recompiled and everything seems working 
> nicely. I have following questions:
> 
> 1. Is this change of limit going to bite me in the arse at some other 
> place in the program?

> 2. Would it be a good idea to make mandatory --verbose switch for 
> plugins to provide more or less information depending on the context 
> (i.e. provide a one-liner in Service Status Details screen and a long 
> description in Service State Information screen).

The plugins strive to keep below 384 unless the --verbose switch is
given - it's a reasonable practive and had precedent.

--
Karl




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