[Nagiosplug-devel] Idea to change nagios to accept xml output from plugins

[jhmartin at toger.us]

> we already discussed on xml in performance data.
> The problem is, that nagios prior to version 3 can only process
> a couple of bytes (i guess it was sth < 512) of plugin output. So XML
> would be to bloat for now.
One should also consider if going to XML will raise the bar for someone to
write their own plug-in.  The current interface is very easy to implement,
while an XML interface would make it more difficult.

-Jason Martin