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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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+ <para>As Nagios does not capture stderr output, you should only output to
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+ STDOUT and not print to STDERR.</para>
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+
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<section><title>Print only one line of text</title>
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<para>Nagios will only grab the first line of text from STDOUT
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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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+ multiple lines, you're out of luck (though this will be a feature of
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+ Nagios 3). Remember, keep your output short and to the point.</para>
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<para>Output should be in the format:</para>
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<literallayout>
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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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- synopsis part of the help message. A well written plugin would
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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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+
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<para>Code and output should try to respect the 80x25 size of a
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crt (remember when fixing stuff in the server room!)</para>
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</section>
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