Debugging plugins

[Tobias Klausmann]

Hi! 

While debugging it would sometimes be nice to be able to run a
plugin/check from the commandline in exactly the same fashion as
Nagios does.

What I'm after is a way of running (for example):

simulate -c /etc/nagios/nagios.conf -p 'check_http!80!http://somewhere.com'

The macros (like %HOSTADDRESS%) might come from the environment
or additional cmdline options to simulate. This program should
then show all the intermediate steps of unquoting, macro
expansione etc. just like it happens in Nagios and finally
showing the actual command executed (i.e. what's sent to exec()).

That way, finding out you've got a % somewhere or missed
something else would be nice. Also, you'd be able to test drive
check_commands before using them in your configuration.

Is there any such beast? If not, is anyone willing to code it?
I'm no expert at C and I hardly know Nagios' internals, so I
can't write it myself (or rather: I'd shoot off several of my
appendages while doing so).

Regards,
Tobias

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