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<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.1//EN" >
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<book>
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- <title>Nagios Plug-in Developer Guidelines</title>
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+ <title>Nagios Plugin Development Guidelines</title>
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<bookinfo>
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<authorgroup>
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</authorgroup>
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<pubdate>2013</pubdate>
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- <title>Nagios plug-in development guidelines</title>
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+ <title>Nagios Plugin Development Guidelines</title>
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<revhistory>
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<revision>
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<preface id="preface"><title>Preface</title>
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<para>The purpose of this guidelines is to provide a reference for
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- the plug-in developers and encourage the standarization of the
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- different kind of plug-ins: C, shell, perl, python, etc.</para>
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+ the plugin developers and encourage the standarization of the
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+ different kind of plugins: C, shell, perl, python, etc.</para>
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- <para>Nagios Plug-in Development Guidelines Copyright (C) 2000-2013
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+ <para>Nagios Plugin Development Guidelines Copyright (C) 2000-2013
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(Nagios Plugins Team)</para>
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<para>Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim
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<article>
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<section id="DevRequirements"><title>Development platform requirements</title>
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<para>
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- Nagios plugins are developed to the GNU standard, so any OS which is supported by GNU
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- should run the plugins. While the requirements for compiling the Nagios plugins release
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+ Nagios Plugins are developed to the GNU standard, so any OS which is supported by GNU
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+ should run the plugins. While the requirements for compiling the Nagios Plugins release
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are very basic, developing from the Git repository requires additional software to be
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installed. These are the minimum levels of software required:
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</section>
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<section><title>Screen Output</title>
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- <para>The plug-in should print the diagnostic and just the
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+ <para>The plugin should print the diagnostic and just the
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usage part of the help message. A well written plugin would
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then have --help as a way to get the verbose help.</para>
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to provide some to prevent the last pair of a) and the first of b) getting run
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together.) Please refer to the Nagios documentation for information on how to
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configure such processing. However, it is the responsibility of the plugin writer
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- to ensure the performance data is in a "Nagios plugins" format.
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+ to ensure the performance data is in a "Nagios Plugins" format.
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This is the expected format:</para>
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<literallayout>
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</listitem>
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</orderedlist>
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- <para>It is up to third party programs to convert the Nagios plugins
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+ <para>It is up to third party programs to convert the Nagios Plugins
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performance data into graphs.</para>
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</section>
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