From 44a321cb8a42d6c0ea2d96a1086a17f2134c89cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ethan Galstad Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 06:42:51 +0000 Subject: Initial revision git-svn-id: https://nagiosplug.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/nagiosplug/nagiosplug/trunk@2 f882894a-f735-0410-b71e-b25c423dba1c --- ROADMAP | 117 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 117 insertions(+) create mode 100644 ROADMAP (limited to 'ROADMAP') diff --git a/ROADMAP b/ROADMAP new file mode 100644 index 00000000..10fcd12c --- /dev/null +++ b/ROADMAP @@ -0,0 +1,117 @@ + +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 decieded 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. + +Bu I would like to urge that all standard plugins contain +validate_arguments(). I think this will help convey the idea that +validations hould 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 reserverd: + +-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 alway 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 alot 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 seemless. 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