[Nagiosplug-devel] Got a direction for me ?

[Marcel]

The basics of the plugin engine is that it should run and complete probing
as fast as it could. So the better the code, the better would be for nagios.
So i think my answer is: You can do with whatever language you can. I only
use perl, since it's development cycle is very short and because I have no
low end hardware concerning performance issues. Even have bash scripts that
act as plugins. Have some perl plugins, and all I have of C plugins are from
the standard distribution. Again, if you will be monitoring tens of
thousands of objects and have little budget for high-end servers, consider
writing plugins that does not have overheads like interpreting the script,
generating bytecode, executing and finishing, the fast it ends, the better
it'll be to nagios.

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Helder Oliveira <hrpoliveira at gmail.com>wrote:

> Yes i did read it already, i have also found some good documentation on ibm
> but now i have another question.
> I have a background in C, Python, Perl etc etc, what would be the best
> language for writing plugins since both 3 can be used for it.Note
>
> Thanks
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Marc Powell <marc at ena.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Aug 28, 2008, at 8:45 AM, Helder Oliveira wrote:
>>
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I'm starting working with nagios, i am a experienced Linux user and
>> > i feel very comfortable with perl, i have googledded a lot and found
>> > some stuff how to start developing plugins for nagios but im asking
>> > this list if someone got recomendations for me, maybe some
>> > interesting links that can save some hours around possible problems,
>> > im refering to the little hacks and tricks that each technology has.
>>
>> Have you seen the Developer Guidelines?
>> http://nagiosplug.sourceforge.net/developer-guidelines.html
>>
>> --
>> Marc
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