[Nagiosplug-devel] testing accounts

[Andreas Ericsson]

Garrett Honeycutt wrote:
> I wrote check_mem to monitor memory usage of linux systems and would
> like to make it portable to other systems to enhance its usability.


How did you write it? If it's written in perl, it's not portable enough 
(many old or stripped down systems don't have perl). If it's written in 
shell, it must only use commands specified in the SUS and POSIX to be 
portable, and must only use command-syntax required to be implemented in 
POSIX.

If you've written it in C, you can use the sysinfo(2) system call on 
linux, but that's linux-specific. Using sysconf(3) where _SC_PHYSPAGES 
and _SC_PAGESIZE or _SC_PAGE_SIZE and _SC_AVPHYS_PAGES are defined 
should work. That way you can simply write an #ifdef fallthrough for 
non-supported systems (making the plugins build cleanly), and one can 
simply add #ifdef sections for systems as required/researched. Most 
systems have some mechanism similar to the sysinfo(2) call on linux.


> I am
> also working on a plugin to return lots of performance data from nfsstat
> for trend analysis and could use some more OS's for testing. I would
> greatly appreciate it anyone could give me an account on a machine with
> an OS of Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, True64, NetBSD, or FreeBSD. If you can
> provide me with an account, please email me off list.
> 

http://www.testdrive.hp.com
Sign up, sign in, do the testing. They have all of the above, except 
Solaris, and it's free.

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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
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