Distributing plugins

[sean finney]

On Wednesday 29 August 2007 04:30:53 pm Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> francois basquin wrote:
> > - modifying nrpe to distribute the plugins on demand. The Nagios server
> > could hold the plugins repository, and send the ones missing to the
> > client. A timestamp checking should also be needed to distribute new
> > versions. Pros: no extra protocol. Cons: needs some development, may
> > introduce a lag on the first service call.
>
> Code speaks louder than words. Unfortunately, a very, very small percentage
> of the people reading emails on this list are competent programmers enough
> to hack up the ideas being sent to this list. Usually those of us who are
> aren't interested in making the changes necessary, so it dies down without
> ever being even prototyped.

furthermore, we're talking about a system where one host on the network 
basically connects to another host and says "here, run this thing i'm about 
to give you".  i would be very skeptical of *anyone*'s implementation of 
that, even that very small percentage :)


	sean
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