[Nagiosplug-devel] plugin naming guidelines

[Massey, Craig]

Yes!

Related for me is check_nt. The nsclient plug-in is a godsend, but as 
its functionality expands, the command line options to access all the 
various metrics get too complex to grasp easily. Creating several Nagios 
checks to access different aspects of the nsclient service on NT would 
let you better target the functionality you want to achieve. With a 
little rework of the nsclient service too, you could check_nt_disk for 
freespace MB, freespace %, low freespace % or MB on any disk and return 
the disk with a problem as performance data, used space % or Mb, disk 
size and others I haven't thought of yet. Similar with processes or 
services. Not everyone wants all of those things and many of them can 
be achieved with a little creative use of the existing technology, but 
for people new to Nagios and if they're using check_nt, quite possibly 
new to Linux, a more focussed system of checks would be incredibly useful.


-----Original Message-----
From: Subhendu Ghosh [mailto:sghosh at sghosh.org]
Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 4:21 AM
To: nagios-user at lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: nagiosplug-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagiosplug-devel] plugin naming guidelines


(Sorry sent without subject earlier)


As multiple plugins start to exist that are either looking at or using the
same technology - I wanted to suggest that we include that in the name. 
(somebody else also suggested this in submitting the checkciscotemp.pl 
split bug)

some examples...

check_snmp  : baseline snmp gets
check_snmp_printer:   checks network connected printers (HP or other)
check_snmp_ifstatus:  checks interfaces status via snmp
check_snmp_ups:       checks ups status via snmp (APC and other)
check_snmp_ciscotemp:

check_smb_disk:  (rename from check_disk_smb)
check_smb_print:  recent discussion about checking print queues..

check_oracle_ping:
check_oracle_tablespace:

Any thoughts on this plugin naming strategy?

-sg


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