[Nagiosplug-help] Development and general help...

[Karl DeBisschop]

On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 05:05, Raymond Page wrote:
> To whomever is on these lists:
> 
> 
> I am trying to get check_imap.t and check_pop.t to run.  They are located 
> under the plugins/t/ directory.  However, I'm not a Perl guy, and I'm 
> befudled as to why it says I need Cache.pm.  I'm presuming it's some sort of 
> Perl library/module that it's not finding.  Anyways, I've looked on CPAN and 
> I'm pretty clueless as to what I need to get, if someone could help me with 
> that I'd appreciate it.

Cache.pm is created when you run the first test - it caches the servers
you use for testing. It should create itself when you run make check.

It is not on CPAN (cannot be, it is unique to each user)

> As for development, I'm wanting to take the check_email_loop.pm from the 
> contrib section and convert it over to imap.  I'm curious if Nagios will 
> timeout while I'm connected.  The idea is to send N emails and leave the imap 
> connection open until all of the emails have arrived, and thus be able to 
> find the average time it takes for emails to arrive.  IMAP as opposed to POP 
> because it's one session and less time reconstructing the connection.  Since 
> I'm having to wait for the emails, I don't want Nagios to timeout on the 
> return reply.  So if anyone knows how long Nagios will wait for a check to 
> take, that's what I need.

There is a setting in the config file -- defaults to 30 secs, IIRC.

--
Karl