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-<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.1//EN">
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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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</thead>
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<tbody>
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<row>
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- <entry align=center><para>0</para></entry>
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+ <entry align="center"><para>0</para></entry>
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<entry><para>Single line, minimal output. Summary</para></entry>
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</row>
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<row>
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- <entry align=center><para>1</para></entry>
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+ <entry align="center"><para>1</para></entry>
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<entry><para>Single line, additional information (eg list processes that fail)</para></entry>
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</row>
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<row>
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- <entry align=center><para>2</para></entry>
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+ <entry align="center"><para>2</para></entry>
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<entry><para>Multi line, configuration debug output (eg ps command used)</para></entry>
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</row>
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<row>
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- <entry align=center><para>3</para></entry>
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+ <entry align="center"><para>3</para></entry>
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<entry><para>Lots of detail for plugin problem diagnosis</para></entry>
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</thead>
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<tbody>
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- <entry align=center><para>0</para></entry>
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- <entry valign=middle><para>OK</para></entry>
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+ <entry align="center"><para>0</para></entry>
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+ <entry valign="middle"><para>OK</para></entry>
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<entry><para>The plugin was able to check the service and it
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appeared to be functioning properly</para></entry>
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<row>
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- <entry align=center><para>1</para></entry>
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- <entry valign=middle><para>Warning</para></entry>
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+ <entry align="center"><para>1</para></entry>
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+ <entry valign="middle"><para>Warning</para></entry>
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<entry><para>The plugin was able to check the service, but it
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appeared to be above some "warning" threshold or did not appear
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to be working properly</para></entry>
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</row>
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- <entry align=center><para>2</para></entry>
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- <entry valign=middle><para>Critical</para></entry>
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+ <entry align="center"><para>2</para></entry>
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+ <entry valign="middle"><para>Critical</para></entry>
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<entry><para>The plugin detected that either the service was not
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running or it was above some "critical" threshold</para></entry>
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</row>
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- <entry align=center><para>3</para></entry>
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- <entry valign=middle><para>Unknown</para></entry>
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+ <entry align="center"><para>3</para></entry>
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+ <entry valign="middle"><para>Unknown</para></entry>
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<entry><para>Invalid command line arguments were supplied to the
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plugin or the plugin was unable to check the status of the given
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hosts/service</para></entry>
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<para>Notes:</para>
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<orderedlist>
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- <listitem><para>start < end</para>
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+ <listitem><para>start > end></para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem><para>start and ":" is not required if start=0</para>
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</listitem>
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variable values will still be in effect.</para>
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</listitem>
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- <listitem><para>Do not use < DATA > (these simply do not compile under ePN).</para>
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+ <listitem><para>Do not use > DATA < (these simply do not compile under ePN).</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem><para>Do not use named subroutines</para>
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<listitem><para>If writing to a file (perhaps recording
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performance data) explicitly close close it. The plugin never
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- calls <emphasis role=strong>exit</emphasis>; that is caught by
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+ calls <emphasis role="strong">exit</emphasis>; that is caught by
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p1.pl, so output streams are never closed.</para>
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</listitem>
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@@ -649,6 +649,13 @@ update the AUTHORS file.</para>
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<ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=29880&atid=397599">SourceForge's
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tracker system for Nagiosplug patches</ulink>
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and be announced to the nagiosplug-devel mailing list.</para>
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+
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+ <para>Submission of a patch implies that the submmitter acknowledges that they
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+ are the author of the code (or have permission from the author to release the code)
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+ and agree that the code can be released under the GPL. The copyright for the changes will
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+ then revert to the Nagios Plugin Development Team - this is required so that any copyright
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+ infringements can be investigated quickly without contacting a huge list of copyright holders.
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+ Credit will always be given for any patches through a THANKS file in the distribution.</para>
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</section>
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<section id="New_plugins"><title>New plugins</title>
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Ton Voon