[Nagiosplug-devel] Nagios:Plugin feedback

[Gavin Carr]

On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 09:05:21AM +0000, Ton Voon wrote:
> 
> On 19 Jan 2007, at 03:46, Gavin Carr wrote:
> 
> >>Is there a is_hostname function? is_ipaddr would be useful as well.
> >>What about passing argument check code directly in the add_arg()  
> >>arguments?
> >>
> >
> >My feeling is that we wouldn't add datatype stuff to Nagios::Plugin,
> >largely because it's pretty well covered already in other CPAN  
> >modules.
> 
> Agreed. CPAN is about reusing other bits of code. However, some  
> pointers to "good implementations" in CPAN might be helpful.

Agreed.

> Longer term, we probably need to think about how to handle module  
> dependencies for a given check_* script. Distributing a plugin to 100  
> boxes might prove problematic if there is a large list of dependencies.

The Right Way to do this, of course, is to use local package
management systems for that. 

I guess it might be reasonable to provide a fallback system though, 
like say a script that scanned all the perl plugins in a directory and 
installed any missing dependencies from CPAN. But you're still going to 
need CPAN configured on all those boxes, which is non-trivial itself.

Cheers,
Gavin

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