RFCs

The aim is to create a set of library routines that can be used for saving state information between invocations of a plugin. This way, it is possible to calculate the rate of change and provide threshold calculations on this, rather than just the current state.

This is based on a patch submitted by Alain Williams, Nagios::Plugin::Differences by Jose Luis Martinez and + comments on the mailing list (see references)

Lots of discussion between Holger and I ended up with this.

Content to come

Library will be part of the nagiosplugins repository. Provisionally, make install-libs to install.

Overview

This proposal is for a simple plugin wrapper allowing aggregation and serialisation of multiple checks.

Overview

The method for defining thresholds via the command line is inconsistent and difficult to interpret. This proposal suggests a different way of specifying thresholds, which will also changes the metrics of performance data returned.