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3 <title>Nagios Plug-in Developer Guidelines</title>
5 <bookinfo>
6 <authorgroup>
7 <author>
8 <firstname>Karl</firstname>
9 <surname>DeBisschop</surname>
10 <affiliation>
11 <address><email>karl@debisschop.net</email></address>
12 </affiliation>
13 </author>
15 <author>
16 <firstname>Ethan</firstname>
17 <surname>Galstad</surname>
18 <authorblurb>
19 <para>Author of Nagios</para>
20 <para><ulink url="http://www.nagios.org"></ulink></para>
21 </authorblurb>
22 <affiliation>
23 <address><email>netsaint@linuxbox.com</email></address>
24 </affiliation>
25 </author>
27 <author>
28 <firstname>Hugo</firstname>
29 <surname>Gayosso</surname>
30 <affiliation>
31 <address><email>hgayosso@gnu.org</email></address>
32 </affiliation>
33 </author>
36 <author>
37 <firstname>Subhendu</firstname>
38 <surname>Ghosh</surname>
39 <affiliation>
40 <address><email>sghosh@sourceforge.net</email></address>
41 </affiliation>
42 </author>
44 <author>
45 <firstname>Stanley</firstname>
46 <surname>Hopcroft</surname>
47 <affiliation>
48 <address><email>stanleyhopcroft@sourceforge.net</email></address>
49 </affiliation>
50 </author>
52 <author>
53 <firstname>Ton</firstname>
54 <surname>Voon</surname>
55 <affiliation>
56 <address><email>tonvoon@users.sourceforge.net</email></address>
57 </affiliation>
58 </author>
60 <author>
61 <firstname>Jeremy T</firstname>
62 <surname>Bouse</surname>
63 <affiliation>
64 <address><email>undrgrid@users.sourceforge.net</email></address>
65 </affiliation>
66 </author>
67 </authorgroup>
69 <pubdate>2002</pubdate>
70 <title>Nagios plug-in development guidelines</title>
72 <revhistory>
73 <revision>
74 <revnumber>$Revision$</revnumber>
75 <date>$Date$</date>
76 </revision>
77 </revhistory>
79 <copyright>
80 <year>2000 - 2004</year>
81 <holder>Nagios Plugins Development Team</holder>
82 </copyright>
84 </bookinfo>
87 <preface id="preface"><title>Preface</title>
88 <para>The purpose of this guidelines is to provide a reference for
89 the plug-in developers and encourage the standarization of the
90 different kind of plug-ins: C, shell, perl, python, etc.</para>
92 <para>Nagios Plug-in Development Guidelines Copyright (C) 2000-2003
93 (Karl DeBisschop, Ethan Galstad, Stanley Hopcroft, Subhendu Ghosh, Ton Voon, Jeremy T. Bouse)</para>
95 <para>Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim
96 copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this
97 permission notice are preserved on all copies.</para>
99 <para>The plugins themselves are copyrighted by their respective
100 authors.</para>
101 </preface>
103 <article>
104 <section id="DevRequirements"><title>Development platform requirements</title>
105 <para>
106 Nagios plugins are developed to the GNU standard, so any OS which is supported by GNU
107 should run the plugins. While the requirements for compiling the Nagios plugins release
108 is very small, to develop from CVS needs additional software to be installed. These are the
109 minimum levels of software required:
111 <literallayout>
112 gnu make 3.79
113 automake 1.8.3
114 autoconf 2.58
115 gettext 0.11.5
116 </literallayout>
118 To compile from CVS, after you have checked out the code, run:
119 <literallayout>
120 tools/setup
121 ./configure
122 make
123 make install
124 </literallayout>
125 </para>
126 </section>
128 <section id="PlugOutput"><title>Plugin Output for Nagios</title>
130 <para>You should always print something to STDOUT that tells if the
131 service is working or why it is failing. Try to keep the output short -
132 probably less that 80 characters. Remember that you ideally would like
133 the entire output to appear in a pager message, which will get chopped
134 off after a certain length.</para>
136 <section><title>Print only one line of text</title>
137 <para>Nagios will only grab the first line of text from STDOUT
138 when it notifies contacts about potential problems. If you print
139 multiple lines, you're out of luck. Remember, keep it short and
140 to the point.</para>
142 <para>Output should be in the format:</para>
143 <literallayout>
144 METRIC STATUS: Information text
145 </literallayout>
146 <para>However, note that this is not a requirement of the API, so you cannot depend on this
147 being an accurate reflection of the status of the service - the status should always
148 be determined by the return code.</para>
149 </section>
151 <section><title>Verbose output</title>
152 <para>Use the -v flag for verbose output. You should allow multiple
153 -v options for additional verbosity, up to a maximum of 3. The standard
154 type of output should be:</para>
156 <table id="verboselevels"><title>Verbose output levels</title>
157 <tgroup cols="2">
158 <thead>
159 <row>
160 <entry><para>Verbosity level</para></entry>
161 <entry><para>Type of output</para></entry>
162 </row>
163 </thead>
164 <tbody>
165 <row>
166 <entry align="center"><para>0</para></entry>
167 <entry><para>Single line, minimal output. Summary</para></entry>
168 </row>
169 <row>
170 <entry align="center"><para>1</para></entry>
171 <entry><para>Single line, additional information (eg list processes that fail)</para></entry>
172 </row>
173 <row>
174 <entry align="center"><para>2</para></entry>
175 <entry><para>Multi line, configuration debug output (eg ps command used)</para></entry>
176 </row>
177 <row>
178 <entry align="center"><para>3</para></entry>
179 <entry><para>Lots of detail for plugin problem diagnosis</para></entry>
180 </row>
181 </tbody>
182 </tgroup>
183 </table>
184 </section>
186 <section><title>Screen Output</title>
187 <para>The plug-in should print the diagnostic and just the
188 synopsis part of the help message. A well written plugin would
189 then have --help as a way to get the verbose help.</para>
190 <para>Code and output should try to respect the 80x25 size of a
191 crt (remember when fixing stuff in the server room!)</para>
192 </section>
194 <section><title>Return the proper status code</title>
195 <para>See <xref linkend="ReturnCodes"> below
196 for the numeric values of status codes and their
197 description. Remember to return an UNKNOWN state if bogus or
198 invalid command line arguments are supplied or it you are unable
199 to check the service.</para>
200 </section>
202 <section><title>Plugin Return Codes</title>
203 <para>The return codes below are based on the POSIX spec of returning
204 a positive value. Netsaint prior to v0.0.7 supported non-POSIX
205 compliant return code of "-1" for unknown. Nagios supports POSIX return
206 codes by default.</para>
208 <para>Note: Some plugins will on occasion print on STDOUT that an error
209 occurred and error code is 138 or 255 or some such number. These
210 are usually caused by plugins using system commands and having not
211 enough checks to catch unexpected output. Developers should include a
212 default catch-all for system command output that returns an UNKNOWN
213 return code.</para>
215 <table id="ReturnCodes"><title>Plugin Return Codes</title>
216 <tgroup cols="3">
217 <thead>
218 <row>
219 <entry><para>Numeric Value</para></entry>
220 <entry><para>Service Status</para></entry>
221 <entry><para>Status Description</para></entry>
222 </row>
223 </thead>
224 <tbody>
225 <row>
226 <entry align="center"><para>0</para></entry>
227 <entry valign="middle"><para>OK</para></entry>
228 <entry><para>The plugin was able to check the service and it
229 appeared to be functioning properly</para></entry>
230 </row>
231 <row>
232 <entry align="center"><para>1</para></entry>
233 <entry valign="middle"><para>Warning</para></entry>
234 <entry><para>The plugin was able to check the service, but it
235 appeared to be above some "warning" threshold or did not appear
236 to be working properly</para></entry>
237 </row>
238 <row>
239 <entry align="center"><para>2</para></entry>
240 <entry valign="middle"><para>Critical</para></entry>
241 <entry><para>The plugin detected that either the service was not
242 running or it was above some "critical" threshold</para></entry>
243 </row>
244 <row>
245 <entry align="center"><para>3</para></entry>
246 <entry valign="middle"><para>Unknown</para></entry>
247 <entry><para>Invalid command line arguments were supplied to the
248 plugin or the plugin was unable to check the status of the given
249 hosts/service</para></entry>
250 </row>
251 </tbody>
252 </tgroup>
253 </table>
256 </section>
258 <section id="thresholdformat"><title>Threshold range format</title>
259 <para>Thresholds ranges define the warning and critical levels for plugins to
260 alert on. The theory is that the plugin will do some sort of check which returns
261 back a numerical value, or metric, which is then compared to the warning and
262 critical thresholds.
263 This is the generalised format for threshold ranges:</para>
265 <literallayout>
266 [@]start:end
267 </literallayout>
269 <para>Notes:</para>
270 <orderedlist>
271 <listitem><para>start > end</para>
272 </listitem>
273 <listitem><para>start and ":" is not required if start=0</para>
274 </listitem>
275 <listitem><para>if range is of format "start:" and end is not specified,
276 assume end is infinity</para>
277 </listitem>
278 <listitem><para>to specify negative infinity, use "~"</para>
279 </listitem>
280 <listitem><para>alert is raised if metric is outside start and end range
281 (inclusive of endpoints)</para>
282 </listitem>
283 <listitem><para>if range starts with "@", then alert if inside this range
284 (inclusive of endpoints)</para>
285 </listitem>
286 </orderedlist>
288 <para>Note: Not all plugins are coded to expect ranges in this format. It is
289 planned for a future release to
290 provide standard libraries to parse and compare metrics against ranges. There
291 will also be some work in providing multiple metrics.</para>
292 </section>
294 <section><title>Performance data</title>
295 <para>Performance data is defined by Nagios as "everything after the | of the plugin output" -
296 please refer to Nagios documentation for information on capturing this data to logfiles.
297 However, it is the responsibility of the plugin writer to ensure the
298 performance data is in a "Nagios plugins" format.
299 This is the expected format:</para>
301 <literallayout>
302 'label'=value[UOM];[warn];[crit];[min];[max]
303 </literallayout>
305 <para>Notes:</para>
306 <orderedlist>
307 <listitem><para>space separated list of label/value pairs</para>
308 </listitem>
309 <listitem><para>label can contain any characters</para>
310 </listitem>
311 <listitem><para>the single quotes for the label are optional. Required if
312 spaces, = or ' are in the label</para>
313 </listitem>
314 <listitem><para>label length is arbitrary, but ideally the first 19 characters
315 are unique (due to a limitation in RRD). Be aware of a limitation in the
316 amount of data that NRPE returns to Nagios</para>
317 </listitem>
318 <listitem><para>to specify a quote character, use two single quotes</para>
319 </listitem>
320 <listitem><para>warn, crit, min or max may be null (for example, if the threshold is
321 not defined or min and max do not apply). Trailing unfilled semicolons can be
322 dropped</para>
323 </listitem>
324 <listitem><para>min and max are not required if UOM=%</para>
325 </listitem>
326 <listitem><para>value, min and max in class [-0-9.]. Must all be the
327 same UOM</para>
328 </listitem>
329 <listitem><para>warn and crit are in the range format (see
330 <xref linkend="thresholdformat">). Must be the same UOM</para>
331 </listitem>
332 <listitem><para>UOM (unit of measurement) is one of:</para>
333 <orderedlist>
334 <listitem><para>no unit specified - assume a number (int or float)
335 of things (eg, users, processes, load averages)</para>
336 </listitem>
337 <listitem><para>s - seconds (also us, ms)</para></listitem>
338 <listitem><para>% - percentage</para></listitem>
339 <listitem><para>B - bytes (also KB, MB, TB)</para></listitem>
340 <listitem><para>c - a continous counter (such as bytes
341 transmitted on an interface)</para></listitem>
342 </orderedlist>
343 </listitem>
344 </orderedlist>
346 <para>It is up to third party programs to convert the Nagios plugins
347 performance data into graphs.</para>
348 </section>
350 <section><title>Translations</title>
351 <para>If possible, use translation tools for all output. Currently, most of the core C plugins
352 use gettext for translation. General guidelines are:</para>
354 <orderedlist>
355 <listitem><para>short help is not translated</para></listitem>
356 <listitem><para>long help has options in English language, but text translated</para></listitem>
357 <listitem><para>"Copyright" kept in English</para></listitem>
358 <listitem><para>copyright holder names kept in original text</para></listitem>
359 </orderedlist>
360 </section>
361 </section>
363 <section id="SysCmdAuxFiles"><title>System Commands and Auxiliary Files</title>
365 <section><title>Don't execute system commands without specifying their
366 full path</title>
367 <para>Don't use exec(), popen(), etc. to execute external
368 commands without explicity using the full path of the external
369 program.</para>
371 <para>Doing otherwise makes the plugin vulnerable to hijacking
372 by a trojan horse earlier in the search path. See the main
373 plugin distribution for examples on how this is done.</para>
374 </section>
376 <section><title>Use spopen() if external commands must be executed</title>
378 <para>If you have to execute external commands from within your
379 plugin and you're writing it in C, use the spopen() function
380 that Karl DeBisschop has written.</para>
382 <para>The code for spopen() and spclose() is included with the
383 core plugin distribution.</para>
384 </section>
386 <section><title>Don't make temp files unless absolutely required</title>
388 <para>If temp files are needed, make sure that the plugin will
389 fail cleanly if the file can't be written (e.g., too few file
390 handles, out of disk space, incorrect permissions, etc.) and
391 delete the temp file when processing is complete.</para>
392 </section>
394 <section><title>Don't be tricked into following symlinks</title>
396 <para>If your plugin opens any files, take steps to ensure that
397 you are not following a symlink to another location on the
398 system.</para>
399 </section>
401 <section><title>Validate all input</title>
403 <para>use routines in utils.c or utils.pm and write more as needed</para>
404 </section>
406 </section>
411 <section id="PerlPlugin"><title>Perl Plugins</title>
413 <para>Perl plugins are coded a little more defensively than other
414 plugins because of embedded Perl. When configured as such, embedded
415 Perl Nagios (ePN) requires stricter use of the some of Perl's features.
416 This section outlines some of the steps needed to use ePN
417 effectively.</para>
419 <orderedlist>
421 <listitem><para> Do not use BEGIN and END blocks since they will be called
422 only once (when Nagios starts and shuts down) with Embedded Perl (ePN). In
423 particular, do not use BEGIN blocks to initialize variables.</para>
424 </listitem>
426 <listitem><para>To use utils.pm, you need to provide a full path to the
427 module in order for it to work.</para>
429 <literallayout>
430 e.g.
431 use lib "/usr/local/nagios/libexec";
432 use utils qw(...);
433 </literallayout>
434 </listitem>
436 <listitem><para>Perl scripts should be called with "-w"</para>
437 </listitem>
439 <listitem><para>All Perl plugins must compile cleanly under "use strict" - i.e. at
440 least explicitly package names as in "$main::x" or predeclare every
441 variable. </para>
444 <para>Explicitly initialize each variable in use. Otherwise with
445 caching enabled, the plugin will not be recompiled each time, and
446 therefore Perl will not reinitialize all the variables. All old
447 variable values will still be in effect.</para>
448 </listitem>
450 <listitem><para>Do not use >DATA< handles (these simply do not compile under ePN).</para>
451 </listitem>
453 <listitem><para>Do not use global variables in named subroutines. This is bad practise anyway, but with ePN the
454 compiler will report an error "<global_var> will not stay shared ..". Values used by
455 subroutines should be passed in the argument list.</para>
456 </listitem>
458 <listitem><para>If writing to a file (perhaps recording
459 performance data) explicitly close close it. The plugin never
460 calls <emphasis role="strong">exit</emphasis>; that is caught by
461 p1.pl, so output streams are never closed.</para>
462 </listitem>
464 <listitem><para>As in <xref linkend="runtime"> all plugins need
465 to monitor their runtime, specially if they are using network
466 resources. Use of the <emphasis>alarm</emphasis> is recommended
467 noting that some Perl modules (eg LWP) manage timers, so that an alarm
468 set by a plugin using such a module is overwritten by the module.
469 (workarounds are cunning (TM) or using the module timer)
470 Plugins may import a default time out ($TIMEOUT) from utils.pm.
471 </para>
472 </listitem>
474 <listitem><para>Perl plugins should import %ERRORS from utils.pm
475 and then "exit $ERRORS{'OK'}" rather than "exit 0"
476 </para>
477 </listitem>
479 </orderedlist>
481 </section>
483 <section id="runtime"><title>Runtime Timeouts</title>
485 <para>Plugins have a very limited runtime - typically 10 sec.
486 As a result, it is very important for plugins to maintain internal
487 code to exit if runtime exceeds a threshold. </para>
489 <para>All plugins should timeout gracefully, not just networking
490 plugins. For instance, df may lock if you have automounted
491 drives and your network fails - but on first glance, who'd think
492 df could lock up like that. Plus, it should just be more error
493 resistant to be able to time out rather than consume
494 resources.</para>
496 <section><title>Use DEFAULT_SOCKET_TIMEOUT</title>
498 <para>All network plugins should use DEFAULT_SOCKET_TIMEOUT to timeout</para>
500 </section>
503 <section><title>Add alarms to network plugins</title>
505 <para>If you write a plugin which communicates with another
506 networked host, you should make sure to set an alarm() in your
507 code that prevents the plugin from hanging due to abnormal
508 socket closures, etc. Nagios takes steps to protect itself
509 against unruly plugins that timeout, but any plugins you create
510 should be well behaved on their own.</para>
512 </section>
516 </section>
518 <section id="PlugOptions"><title>Plugin Options</title>
520 <para>A well written plugin should have --help as a way to get
521 verbose help. Code and output should try to respect the 80x25 size of a
522 crt (remember when fixing stuff in the server room!)</para>
524 <section><title>Option Processing</title>
526 <para>For plugins written in C, we recommend the C standard
527 getopt library for short options. Getopt_long is always available.
528 </para>
530 <para>For plugins written in Perl, we recommend Getopt::Long module.</para>
532 <para>Positional arguments are strongly discouraged.</para>
534 <para>There are a few reserved options that should not be used
535 for other purposes:</para>
537 <literallayout>
538 -V version (--version)
539 -h help (--help)
540 -t timeout (--timeout)
541 -w warning threshold (--warning)
542 -c critical threshold (--critical)
543 -H hostname (--hostname)
544 -v verbose (--verbose)
545 </literallayout>
547 <para>In addition to the reserved options above, some other standard options are:</para>
549 <literallayout>
550 -C SNMP community (--community)
551 -a authentication password (--authentication)
552 -l login name (--logname)
553 -p port or password (--port or --passwd/--password)monitors operational
554 -u url or username (--url or --username)
555 </literallayout>
557 <para>Look at check_pgsql and check_procs to see how I currently
558 think this can work. Standard options are:</para>
561 <para>The option -V or --version should be present in all
562 plugins. For C plugins it should result in a call to print_revision, a
563 function in utils.c which takes two character arguments, the
564 command name and the plugin revision.</para>
566 <para>The -? option, or any other unparsable set of options,
567 should print out a short usage statement. Character width should
568 be 80 and less and no more that 23 lines should be printed (it
569 should display cleanly on a dumb terminal in a server
570 room).</para>
572 <para>The option -h or --help should be present in all plugins.
573 In C plugins, it should result in a call to print_help (or
574 equivalent). The function print_help should call print_revision,
575 then print_usage, then should provide detailed
576 help. Help text should fit on an 80-character width display, but
577 may run as many lines as needed.</para>
579 <para>The option -v or --verbose should be present in all plugins.
580 The user should be allowed to specify -v multiple times to increase
581 the verbosity level, as described in <xref linkend="verboselevels">.</para>
582 </section>
584 <section>
585 <title>Plugins with more than one type of threshold, or with
586 threshold ranges</title>
588 <para>Old style was to do things like -ct for critical time and
589 -cv for critical value. That goes out the window with POSIX
590 getopt. The allowable alternatives are:</para>
592 <orderedlist>
593 <listitem>
594 <para>long options like -critical-time (or -ct and -cv, I
595 suppose).</para>
596 </listitem>
598 <listitem>
599 <para>repeated options like `check_load -w 10 -w 6 -w 4 -c
600 16 -c 10 -c 10`</para>
601 </listitem>
603 <listitem>
604 <para>for brevity, the above can be expressed as `check_load
605 -w 10,6,4 -c 16,10,10`</para>
606 </listitem>
608 <listitem>
609 <para>ranges are expressed with colons as in `check_procs -C
610 httpd -w 1:20 -c 1:30` which will warn above 20 instances,
611 and critical at 0 and above 30</para>
612 </listitem>
614 <listitem>
615 <para>lists are expressed with commas, so Jacob's check_nmap
616 uses constructs like '-p 1000,1010,1050:1060,2000'</para>
617 </listitem>
619 <listitem>
620 <para>If possible when writing lists, use tokens to make the
621 list easy to remember and non-order dependent - so
622 check_disk uses '-c 10000,10%' so that it is clear which is
623 the precentage and which is the KB values (note that due to
624 my own lack of foresight, that used to be '-c 10000:10%' but
625 such constructs should all be changed for consistency,
626 though providing reverse compatibility is fairly
627 easy).</para>
628 </listitem>
630 </orderedlist>
632 <para>As always, comments are welcome - making this consistent
633 without a host of long options was quite a hassle, and I would
634 suspect that there are flaws in this strategy.
635 </para>
636 </section>
637 </section>
639 <section id="CodingGuidelines"><title>Coding guidelines</title>
640 <para>See <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_toc.html">GNU
641 Coding standards</ulink> for general guidelines.</para>
642 <section><title>Comments</title>
643 <para>You should use /* */ for comments and not // as some compilers
644 do not handle the latter form.</para>
645 <para>There should not be any named credits in the source code - contributors
646 should be added
647 into the AUTHORS file instead. The only exception to this is if a routine
648 has been copied from another source.</para>
649 </section>
651 <section><title>CVS comments</title>
652 <para>When adding CVS comments at commit time, you can use the following prefixes:
653 <variablelist>
654 <varlistentry><term>- comment</term>
655 <listitem>
656 <para>for a comment that can be removed from the Changelog</para>
657 </listitem>
658 </varlistentry>
659 <varlistentry><term>* comment</term>
660 <listitem>
661 <para>for an important amendment to be included into a features list</para>
662 </listitem>
663 </varlistentry>
664 </variablelist>
665 </para>
666 <para>If the change is due to a contribution, please quote the contributor's name
667 and, if applicable, add the SourceForge Tracker number. Don't forget to
668 update the AUTHORS file.</para>
669 </section>
670 </section>
672 <section id="SubmittingChanges"><title>Submission of new plugins and patches</title>
674 <section id="Patches"><title>Patches</title>
675 <para>If you have a bug patch, please supply a unified or context diff against the
676 version you are using. For new features, please supply a diff against
677 the CVS HEAD version.</para>
679 <para>Patches should be submitted via
680 <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=29880&atid=397599">SourceForge's
681 tracker system for Nagiosplug patches</ulink>
682 and be announced to the nagiosplug-devel mailing list.</para>
684 <para>Submission of a patch implies that the submmitter acknowledges that they
685 are the author of the code (or have permission from the author to release the code)
686 and agree that the code can be released under the GPL. The copyright for the changes will
687 then revert to the Nagios Plugin Development Team - this is required so that any copyright
688 infringements can be investigated quickly without contacting a huge list of copyright holders.
689 Credit will always be given for any patches through a THANKS file in the distribution.</para>
690 </section>
692 <section id="Newplugins"><title>New plugins</title>
693 <para>If you would like others to use your plugins and have it included in
694 the standard distribution, please include patches for the relevant
695 configuration files, in particular "configure.in". Otherwise submitted
696 plugins will be included in the contrib directory.</para>
698 <para>Plugins in the contrib directory are going to be migrated to the
699 standard plugins/plugin-scripts directory as time permits and per user
700 requests. The minimum requirements are:</para>
702 <orderedlist>
703 <listitem>
704 <para>The standard command options are supported (--help, --version,
705 --timeout, --warning, --critical)</para>
706 </listitem>
707 <listitem>
708 <para>It is determined to be not redundant (for instance, we would not
709 add a new version of check_disk just because someone had provide
710 a plugin that had perf checking - we would incorporate the features
711 into an exisiting plugin)</para>
712 </listitem>
713 <listitem>
714 <para>One of the developers has had the time to audit the code and declare
715 it ready for core</para>
716 </listitem>
717 <listitem>
718 <para>It should also follow code format guidelines, and use functions from
719 utils (perl or c or sh) rather than cooking it's own</para>
720 </listitem>
721 </orderedlist>
723 <para>New plugins should be submitted via
724 <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=29880&atid=541465">SourceForge's
725 tracker system for Nagiosplug new plugins</ulink>
726 and be announced to the nagiosplug-devel mailing list.</para>
728 <para>For new plugins, provide a diff to add to the EXTRAS list (configure.in)
729 unless you are fairly sure that the plugin will work for all platforms with
730 no non-standard software added.</para>
732 <para>If possible please submit a test harness. Documentation on sample
733 tests coming soon.</para>
734 </section>
736 </section>
738 <section id="UsingSourceforge"><title>Using Sourceforge</title>
739 <table id="Projectmemberaccess"><title>Project Member Access</title>
740 <tgroup cols="9">
741 <thead>
742 <row>
743 <entry><para>Member type</para></entry>
744 <entry><para>CVS Access</para></entry>
745 <entry><para>Shell Access</para></entry>
746 <entry><para>Release Tech</para></entry>
747 <entry><para>Tracker Manager</para></entry>
748 <entry><para>Task Manager</para></entry>
749 <entry><para>Forums</para></entry>
750 <entry><para>Doc Manager</para></entry>
751 <entry><para>News</para></entry>
752 <entry><para>Screenshots</para></entry>
753 <entry><para>Notes</para></entry>
754 </row>
755 </thead>
756 <tbody>
757 <row>
758 <entry><para>Translator</para></entry>
759 <entry><para>Yes</para></entry>
760 <entry><para>Yes</para></entry>
761 <entry><para>No</para></entry>
762 <entry><para>-</para></entry>
763 <entry><para>-</para></entry>
764 <entry><para>-</para></entry>
765 <entry><para>-</para></entry>
766 <entry><para>-</para></entry>
767 <entry><para>-</para></entry>
768 <entry><para>Add developer to CVSROOT/avail for translation files</para></entry>
769 </row>
770 <row>
771 <entry><para>Developer</para></entry>
772 <entry><para>Yes</para></entry>
773 <entry><para>Yes</para></entry>
774 <entry><para>No</para></entry>
775 <entry><para>-</para></entry>
776 <entry><para>A&T</para></entry>
777 <entry><para>Moderator</para></entry>
778 <entry><para>Editor</para></entry>
779 <entry><para>-</para></entry>
780 <entry><para>-</para></entry>
781 <entry><para>Need to set tracker access individually. Add developer to CVSROOT/avail for all files</para></entry>
782 </row>
783 </tbody>
784 </tgroup>
785 </table>
786 <para>Add all members to the nagiosplug-team mailing list</para>
787 </section>
788 </article>
790 </book>