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<section id="PlugOutput"><title>Plugin Output for Nagios</title>
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<para>You should always print something to STDOUT that tells if the
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- service is working or why its failing. Try to keep the output short -
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+ service is working or why it is failing. Try to keep the output short -
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probably less that 80 characters. Remember that you ideally would like
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the entire output to appear in a pager message, which will get chopped
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off after a certain length.</para>
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when it notifies contacts about potential problems. If you print
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multiple lines, you're out of luck. Remember, keep it short and
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to the point.</para>
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+
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+ <para>Output should be in the format:</para>
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+ <literallayout>
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+ METRIC STATUS: Information text
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+ </literallayout>
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+ <para>However, note that this is not a requirement of the API, so you cannot depend on this
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+ being an accurate reflection of the status of the service - the status should always
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+ be determined by the return code.</para>
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</section>
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<section><title>Verbose output</title>
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Ton Voon