[Nagiosplug-devel] New plugins, autoconf & pre-built binaries

[Jeremy T. Bouse]

	What about doing it like check_tcp and family? Let the plugin determine
what check it is doing by the name of the executable... Just create symlinks so
a symlink check_procs_vsz would be the VSZ check... 

	Jeremy

On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 10:11:00AM +0100, Voon, Ton wrote:
> Assuming we have a souped-up check_procs, what would the syntax be?
> 
> My proposal:
> 
> check_procs --check=vsz -w 10 -c 5 [filters]
> 
> where filters are options from:
> 	-s state, -p ppid, -u user, -a argument, -C command (default: all
> processes)
> 
> and --check can be 
> 	procs (default), vsz, rss, cpu
> 
> My only concern is that -w and -c would be treated differently depending on
> the --check option used (eg cpu would probably be percentage, procs would be
> ints, vsz would be bytes). I think separating it into links to the same
> check_procs makes it a bit clearer that they are different threshold values,
> but this is not a strong preference.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Subhendu Ghosh [SMTP:sghosh at sghosh.org]
> > Sent:	Monday, March 31, 2003 7:13 PM
> > To:	NagiosPlug Devel
> > Subject:	RE: [Nagiosplug-devel] New plugins, autoconf & pre-built
> > binaries
> > 
> > Preference for a souped-up version is portability doesn't create too many 
> > problems in coding.
> > 
> > -sg
> > 
> > On 31 Mar 2003, Karl DeBisschop wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 05:00, Voon, Ton wrote:
> > > > check_cpu is actually a cpu check on processes, not the overall load
> > on a
> > > > system. Maybe a rename to check_procs_cpu? If so, there is a check_vsz
> > to
> > > > check the virtual size of processes - maybe this should change to
> > > > check_procs_vsz for consistency?
> > > > 
> > > > I also notice that the configure.in holds checks for an RSS_COMMAND,
> > but
> > > > there is no check_rss. Is this worthwhile to do? (I'm thinking a
> > symlink of
> > > > check_vsz, but with slightly different processing, ala check_tcp /
> > check_ftp
> > > > / check_telnet)
> > > 
> > > Actually, I'd prefer to see them all rolled up into on souped up version
> > > of check_procs. Is that feasible? Do other people consider a single
> > > program the better option?
> > > 
> > > To me, since we test status, owner, etc in check_procs, cpu usage is
> > > just more of the same.
> > > 
> > > Problem would be making it portable, of course.
> > > 
> > > --
> > > Karl
> > 
> 
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