[Nagiosplug-help] Re: [Nagios-users] (no subject)

[Chet Luther]

    I for one think this is a great idea.  I've been doing that with my
custom plugins for a while to help differentiate between things like
check_disk and check_snmp_disk.  It would be nice for the plugins that need
to be run locally be named something like check_local_disk.

Chet Luther
chet at rcn.com

> 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.
>
> 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_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