nagios output as clickable link

[Marc Powell]

On Jan 6, 2010, at 11:23 AM, dave stern - e-mail.pluribus.unum wrote:

> This may be stretching nagios beyond its designed intention but...
> 
> I'm writing a plugin that could produce many many lines of output.
> Since this obviously wont fit on a status page, what I'd like to do
> is if the output is not exit-status=0, produce a webpage and in the
> status information field of the service, have a clickable link to transport
> you to that page. Has anyone successfully tried this before?

Yes, there are people doing it. The following post notes a gotcha...

http://www.mail-archive.com/nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg27845.html (appears to have been a home-brew like yours).

More generally -- http://nagiosplugins.org/man/urlize

--
Marc


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