Hi, Thomas Guyot-Sionnest wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 20/07/08 11:19 AM, stan wrote: > >> On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 10:16:45AM -0500, Marc Powell wrote: >> >>> On Jul 20, 2008, at 9:28 AM, stan wrote: >>> >>>> After having looked at the way Nagios plugins work, i have a couple of >>>> concerns about this design. The first is the rule that says the status >>>> returned by a plugin should be less than 8 characters. The 2nd is >>>> that, for >>>> >>> Perhaps I'm not following but I'm not aware of any such restriction. >>> Nagios only really cares about the exit _code_ code of a plugin (1-4) >>> and the text is for humans only. That text can be quite large. In >>> nagios-2 it must all be on one line. There is a limit but it depends >>> on how you're getting your results back to nagios but in all cases is >>> much greater than 8 characters (i.e. ~500 at minimum I believe for >>> passive checks). In nagios-3 it can be split across multiple lines >>> (with documented caveats) with no limit I believe (but check the >>> documentation). >>> >>> >> Sorry for the 8, it was supposed to be 80, and came from a web page I read >> about developing NAGIO plugins. If I recall the reason corectly, it was >> because that status might go to a printed report? >> > > In the official Nagios-plugins we enforce a 80-characters limit on the > - --help output as the plugins might get configured from a 80x24 text > terminal (just to avoid line breaks - it won't break anything though). > That's the only 80 characters limit I've ever heard about... >
The maximum plugin output, according to Nagios 3's release notes, is 4KB (or 350 bytes in previous versions) and can be changed by re-compiling. This equates to 4096 ASCII characters. See http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/pluginapi.html. The plugin API is not as restrictive as you may think. Andy ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
