[Nagiosplug-devel] [RFC] Plugins config file

[Ton Voon]

On 18 Oct 2006, at 15:33, sean finney wrote:

>> Which settings do you mean?
>
> i would say as much as possible :)  one of the biggest pains
> (historically) with managing installation of the plugins is getting  
> them
> to find the utils.pm in the right place (i.e. the susbt script).

Agreed. I want to deprecate utils.pm as soon as possible in favour of  
Nagios::Plugin. There's not a huge amount of functionality in there  
anyway, as most people have already noted.

> i've also always felt that some of the information in these files  
> really
> ought to be treated more as configuration options as opposed to  
> library
> settings.  for example $PATH_TO_FOO is something that the local admin
> might want to change.
>
> so if most of the utils.pm functions are going into Nagios::Plugin, my
> thinking was that the other stuff could be incorporated into this
> scheme.

I never saw the point of $PATH_TO_FOO variables. I would just call  
system() without the full path, no?

Otherwise, if we have this ini configuration file, we could have a  
stanza like:

[main]
path_to_rpcinfo=/usr/sbin/rpcinfo
path_to_lmstat=
path_to_smbclient=/usr/bin/smbclient
path_to_mailq=/usr/bin/mailq
path_to_qmail_qstat=

Values added by configure, of course.

I've just thought, if this ini file is created by the nagios- 
plugins ./configure, how does Nagios::Plugin know where it resides?  
Would it have to check various possible locations?

Ton

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