persistent storage for checks Monitoring::Plugin

[Florian Lohoff]

Hi,
is there a way for persistent storage in the checks?

I wrote myself an interface check plugin which gets an
interface name as input and looks through the ifName/ifDescr
table to find its oid.

Now i am caching the result that do not need to do the walk
again on every invocation.

I do verify that the name still matches.

So if i dont have a cache file i do

	snmpwalk ifName ifDescr
	snmpget ifInOctets ifOutOctets ifName ifDescr
	write cachefile

The next invocation i do

	read cachefile
	snmpget ifInOctets ifOutOctets ifName IfDescr
	check if ifName ifDescr still matches
		if not do walk again

Currently i simply create a directory and i drop my cache files
somewhere in /var/lib/nagios3/run something but i think it'll be
a good idea to formalize the way to do persistent storage
via Monitoring::Plugin

Flo
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Florian Lohoff                                                 f at zz.de
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