Plugin output question

[Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy]

Hello all.

I have just signed up for nagios maiiling lists, and I am not sure if 
this question belongs here or somewhere else.
I am setting up nagios on our site, to monitor few hundreds UNIX boxes. 
I have created a plugin to monitor disk usage, different from the 
default in the way that it monitors all the localy mounted file systems. 
As output I have included something like this:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
<font color="green">OK: / (/dev/sda2) - 76% (2.4G of 
3.3G)<br></font><font color="green">OK: /var (/dev/sda3) - 7% (321M of 
4.8G)<br></font>
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
where it would change the service state if any of the FSs went beyond 
the limit and highlight the line with the particular mount point in red.
Since some of our Sun servers have quite a few mount points, I ran into 
the plugin output limit. I have changed the value of 
MAX_PLUGINOUTPUT_LENGTH to 1024, recompiled and everything seems working 
nicely. I have following questions:

1. Is this change of limit going to bite me in the arse at some other 
place in the program?
2. Would it be a good idea to make mandatory --verbose switch for 
plugins to provide more or less information depending on the context 
(i.e. provide a one-liner in Service Status Details screen and a long 
description in Service State Information screen).



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