Description
Okay, long time, no action.
I had some time to think about what should be in here and here are my thoughts:
I want:
- a technical interface specification for the current Monitoring Plugin interface, purely technical, similar to a RFC
- best practices for developers of monitoring plugins (common parameters and so on)
- ideally a list of know implementations of executing side (so Naemon, Icinga2 ....) and libraries implementing the executed side (go-check, libmonitoring-plugins-perl, etc.)
Furthermore, I have some ideas for a new and future interface and this could be the place to develop a standard for it (however unlikely it is to establish a new thing in this area).
Idealy this repository and derivatives of it (documents, websites, etc.) will be THE place to look if question about connection between Monitoring Plugins and Monitoring Systems executing the former arise.
Now, there is the question of to make it happen and I have no answer to that, apart of writing some texts about how I think things are or should be.
I would like collect some thoughts about this from people who are more heavily invested in this field, so I am now going to link some of them :-)
@datamuc @sni @mc-chaos @Napsty @lausser @waja @matteocorti
Feel free to add other people and sorry for being obnoxious