[Nagiosplug-help] Are there plugins for...

[Karl DeBisschop]

On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 02:22, Andreas Krennmair wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 21:59, Jake Colman wrote:
> > 
> >     JR> Did you even try looking for an answer on your own?  There's a
> >     JR> check_dhcp in the contrib dir of the standard plugins distribution.
> > 
> > Did you check whether check_dhcp was available as an executable program or,
> > perhaps, only available in source code?  I assumed since the make program did
> > not build it, that it was not ready for prime time.
> 
> It was most likely not built because configure was unable to find some
> program or library that check_dhcp depends on. Have a look at
> config.log, this should help you find the required dependencies.

The contrib directory is not built aitomatically. The nagios plugin
developers generally make no specific comment on the quality of a plugin
in contrib. The gaol of contrib is to distribute these plugins as
quickly as we can.

Operationally, if a plugin is not integreated with the standard build,
it is in contrib. From there, we try to move it into the standards build
by sharing code whereever we can, making sure we use the standard build
options, and making sure that the new plugin can't easily be
accomplished trivially with another plugin.

But two comments above may be readily refuted:

1) check_dhcp could be more solid than a number of core plugins. It's
just not integrated yet.

2) check_dhcp will not build with the normal make, because it is not yet
integrated.

-- 
Karl