Running the same plugin once vs. multiple times

[Andreas Ericsson]

On 10/02/2012 11:02 PM, Tech Support wrote:
> All;
> 
>      I wrote a plugin to collect data for a particular service. I invoke the
> plugin with whatever parameter I want to return information on.  In fact, it
> collects information on about 30 different params at once, then returns the
> data that I specified.  For example, ./get_sysinfo -p param1 or
> ./get_sysinfo -p param2, etc. It seems to me to be a waste of resources to
> call the same script 30 times. Is it possible to call the plugin once and
> return all the data (including the performance data) at the same time? The
> benefit that I have calling the same script 30 different times is that
> Nagiosgraph creates a separate graph for each parameter and I don't want to
> lose that ability. Any insight at all would be greatly appreciated.
> 

Take a look at check_mk. It's doable but is a bit convoluted unless
you write good infrastructure for it once and then reuse it over and
over.

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