[Nagios-users] Nagios development moving forward

[Andreas Ericsson]

On 04/29/2010 09:39 PM, Richard Lynch wrote:
> Recommendation:
> 
> Check_swap should be refactored to a get_swap function, OS-dependent, and
> then a comparison process, OS-independent. :-)
> 
> I'm contemplating writing a Mac OS X check_swap, as there does not seem to
> be one, and not looking forward to parsing "top -n 1 -S ..." output...
> 

This is a plugin issue. I was discussing the nagios core deamon, which is
the scheduler that runs the plugins. Issues like this would best be vented
on the nagiosplugin-devel list, or by scouring the web for an OS X compatible
check_swap.

> 
> 'Course, I don't really know what I'm talking about; I'm a nagios "victim"
> for a month of a setup that blasts the whole IT department for every
> notification, and haven't actually done anything useful to fix that yet...
> 

I'd suggest you disable notifications globally right now, since people
will otherwise get used to ignoring them. Then fix the problem and re-enable
them.

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