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

[Ton Voon]

On Tuesday, April 1, 2003, at 11:19  pm, Karl DeBisschop wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 09:26, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote:
>> 	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...
>
> I think it is more powerful to have one check_procs that can run any
> number of filters.
>
> So you can have checks like 'warn if more than one of Joe Dbadmin procs
> has a vsz exceeding a limit'
>
> Or whatever combination suits the needs of the install.
>
> Actually, in implementing all the checks al a series of filters, it 
> woul
> be nice to be able to specify both AND and OR.
>
> The check_vsz is just a special case in this framework.
>
Good idea re: AND and OR option in filters.

I see where you are going with this (run a huge ps command and then run 
a db-like query on results), but what would the syntax look like?