[dev.icinga.com #10880] "setting up check plugins" section should be enhanced with package manager examples

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This issue has been migrated from Redmine: https://dev.icinga.com/issues/10880

Created by mikitracey on 2015-12-17 15:50:54 +00:00

Assignee: mfriedrich
Status: Resolved (closed on 2015-12-18 13:34:54 +00:00)
Target Version: 2.4.2
Last Update: 2016-02-23 09:58:34 +00:00 (in Redmine)

Backport?: Already backported
Include in Changelog: 1

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Congratulations for an excellent and easy to use Getting Started guide. If only the rest of the document didn't require quite so much Unix/Monitoring knowledge to get through. I originally opsted this suggestion in the Icinga forum on monitoring-portal and dnsmichi sent me over here to submit the ticket.

I'm new to monitoring tools and unix and so i was glad to find the Getting Started section so helpful. I only had one problem. I had previously encountered an optional section (the one on context hilighting, which i did use later, but not in the initial install) and so when i got to the Nagios Plugin section and it did not have call-out blocks with command examples, i skipped it.

I didn't have any problems until i tried to load a gui and it just threw errors trying to monitor things.

I'd like to suggest two changes:

1. as with all the other non-optional sections, use the call out blocks to tell your reader that this section is not optional and create example style commands:
   for instance: CentOS 7 yum install OR

2. Indicate that this section is not optional at the very beginning. For intance: Icinga requires that these plugins be installed in order to run.

Changesets

2015-12-18 13:33:55 +00:00 by mfriedrich 95e62df

Enhance "setting up check plugins" documentation

fixes #10880

2016-02-23 08:17:31 +00:00 by mfriedrich 4a5a7a7

Enhance "setting up check plugins" documentation

fixes #10880

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Updated by mfriedrich on 2015-12-18 13:32:40 +00:00

• Tracker changed from Bug to Feature
• Subject changed from Nagios plugin section unclear to "setting up check plugins" section should be enhanced with package manager examples
• Status changed from New to Assigned
• Assigned to set to mfriedrich
• Target Version set to 2.4.2

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Updated by mfriedrich on 2015-12-18 13:34:54 +00:00

• Status changed from Assigned to Resolved
• Done % changed from 0 to 100

Applied in changeset 95e62df.

[icinga-migration]

Updated by gbeutner on 2016-02-23 09:58:34 +00:00

• Backport? changed from Not yet backported to Already backported