From c2919d5fa77de66708ccdae6291855f4c59c847e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lorenz Kästle <12514511+RincewindsHat@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:53:27 +0100 Subject: Remove ROADMAP The roadmap file in this repository has not been used for decades. This commit removes it to avoid confusion. --- ROADMAP | 117 ---------------------------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 117 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 ROADMAP diff --git a/ROADMAP b/ROADMAP deleted file mode 100644 index 6378ec74..00000000 --- a/ROADMAP +++ /dev/null @@ -1,117 +0,0 @@ - -Releases in the 1.3 series will be for development. Version 1.4.0 will -be the next full production release. I am not planning on dates right now, -but you can expect maintennence releases for 1.2.9 as well. - -With that done, it's time to figure out what we are doing for release -1.3 development. I have a few ideas. Maybe others do as well. - -DOCUMENTATION: - We pretty much have decided that we will doing something along - the lines of a literate programming model. So far, we have site - documentation in DocBook. I have some ideas here, which I will - discuss in a separate thread. - - - -OPTION PROCESSING: - I believe we can remove reverse compatibility for non-Getopt - option specifications. For example, 'check_ping 1 2 3 4 -p 2' - would not be supported anymore. Support for this is a hack, - and making it portable is bug-prone. We should also review - standardization of our options -- the current list is a little - ad hoc, it should be nailed down. Details in a separate thread. - -Also, - - check_http -p 443 --ssl www.infoplease.com - -should be fine, but if the getopt in use does not natively support it, -things like - - check_http www.infoplease.com -p 443 --ssl - -should be trapped and result in a call to one of the usage macros -(which print a message and then exit STATE_UNKNOWN). - -This means that the call_getopt() function can go away. It's an -inconsistent mess and I'd love to ditch it. I only created it to -satisfy people that wanted reverse compatibility and did not have -GNU getopt. - -But I would like to urge that all standard plugins contain -validate_arguments(). I think this will help convey the idea that -validations should be done, even if we don't insist on the specific -extent that each plugin must do that validation. - -This is the set of standard options I envision: - -Reserved: - --h, --help (REQUIRED!!!!!) --V, --version (REQUIRED!!!!!) --v, --verbose --q, --quiet --t, --timeout = INTEGER (senonds) --c, --critical = (INT|FLOAT|RANGE|LIST) --w, --warning = (INT|FLOAT|RANGE|LIST) --H, --hostname = STRING --F, --file = STRING (usually input) --O, --output = STRING (output file) - -Recommended, but not reserved: - --I, --ipaddress = STRING --C, --community = STRING --a, --auth(info) = STRING (authentication or password) --l, --logname = STRING --p, --password = STRING --P, --port = INT --u, --url = STRING (also --username if --url is not needed) - -I am suggesting that port always be '-P' (uppercase) -- we are -currently inconsistent in that regard. - -I am also adding '-q' for silent running. This is totally self -centered--I am planning to use a plugin in a cron script, and I -don't want nightly emails. - -As has been the case, ranges are specified with colons, like 'i:j' -and list are specified with commas like 'i,k' and may contain ranges -if it makes sense to do so. Perhaps it would be good to build a -standard list/range processing function for this task. - - -Programming: - I would like to follow the GNU guidelines and remove all fixed - length character assignments, at least to the extent possible, - from the C-based plugins. To that end, I have made strscpy and - friends in utils.c -- I'd like to deploy them. I have comments - that there is a lot of duplicated code, and techniques used that - should be cleaned up. Details in a separate thread. - -Remote checks: - I have a proposal in hand to incorporate ssh check into spopen() - so that remote machine checks can be seamless. A nice idea, but - complex enough to require discussion. Another thread. - -I also have a wish list, and I'm sure I've forgot some items. I'll -list mine, please respond with other items that can be put into the -sourceforge task manager: - - Indent all code in a GNU-compatible manner (indent -ts 2 -br) - Add RAND_seed to check_http for --ssl on systems without /dev/random - Add regex filtering to check_procs --args option - Add working procs syntax for AIX check_procs - Allow check_disk to exclude non-local disks - Add md5 checksumming to check_http - Complete unification of check_tcp and friends - Add SSL in a general way to check_tcp and friends - Patches to check_log from Joonas - Add calculator engine and snmpwalk to check_snmp - Is there a bug in check_oracle - Are there outstanding bugs in check_snmp - Change check_http --onredirect to default as STATE_UNKNOWN - Create plugin to check tftp servers - Create plugin wrapper to invert error status - -- cgit v1.2.3-74-g34f1