The size is related to LCD platform. If you are running Nagios on a
platrofm that can support larger sizes for atomic writes in named pipes
and IPC you can use it.
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network. ... h=ipc+size
this is defined in include/objects.h
-sg
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Andy Harbach wrote:
> I am currently examining the use of Nagios to replace another monitoring
> system. Most of the features I have seen in Nagios are excellent,
> however we require extra information on services which are critical or
> warnings (i.e. we need to see a lot more than a single line of output).
> >From my understanding Nagios currently only shows a single line, and
> truncates it if its length is over a specific number of characters.
>
> My current plans are for our development team to return the extra
> information required using the nrpe plugin, and then to log this
> information to a file (e.g.
> /usr/local/nagios/share/history/hostname-check-time-.html)
>
> One way we have thought of doing this is to attempt editing of the
> Nagios source code to include an extra macro (e.g. $DETAIL$) to hold the
> information, which could then be used by a logging plugin (possibly
> called using an event handler).
>
> Another possibility is to ask the nrpe plugin (or Nagios) to do the
> logging directly.
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts on the viability of these suggestions -
> would there be a better way to do this? Also if we were to implement
> these features would there be a chance of getting them put in to the
> main source tree for future releases?
>
> I look forward to receiving any feedback.
>
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