Thoughts about a custom plugin

[Marc Powell]

On Jul 20, 2008, at 9:28 AM, stan wrote:
>
> After having looked at the way Nagios plugins work, i have a couple of
> concerns about this design. The first is the rule that says the status
> returned by a plugin should be less than 8 characters. The 2nd is  
> that, for

Perhaps I'm not following but I'm not aware of any such restriction.  
Nagios only really cares about the exit _code_ code of a plugin (1-4)  
and the text is for humans only. That text can be quite large. In  
nagios-2 it must all be on one line. There is a limit but it depends  
on how you're getting your results back to nagios but in all cases is  
much greater than 8 characters (i.e. ~500 at minimum I believe for  
passive checks). In nagios-3 it can be split across multiple lines  
(with documented caveats) with no limit I believe (but check the  
documentation).

--
Marc

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