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authorHolger Weiss <hweiss@users.sourceforge.net>2009-04-22 00:28:53 +0200
committerHolger Weiss <hweiss@users.sourceforge.net>2009-04-22 00:47:29 +0200
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parent05a980ba4bd3de0540771000955bd3235ad17acd (diff)
downloadmonitoring-plugins-92bb86c484c3d52c5ffdfa790f7a5acf68edcc36.tar.gz
Make C plugin output format configurable
*** THIS COMMIT WILL BE MODIFIED IN THE FUTURE! *** The development guidelines¹ currently state that the plugin output should be in the format "SERVICE STATUS: Information text". However, when a plugin is called via Nagios in order to perform a service check, adding SERVICE and STATUS to the output is redundant. And when a plugin is called on the command line for testing, there is no use in printing out the SERVICE string, either. However, for debugging, it does make sense to print out the STATUS so that the user won't have to check and interpret the exit code manually. But it should suffice to print such debug output only when called with "--verbose", not in production. Space for plugin output is sometimes scarce, so that we should try to keep the output "short and to the point" (as the guide states) and not waste space with redundant information. Therefore, we decided² to make the ("normal" and "verbose") plugin output configurable at compile time. ¹ http://nagiosplug.sf.net/developer-guidelines.html ² http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.network.nagios.plugins.devel/5155
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