Hi, Am 20.12.2011 um 22:36 schrieb Al Amyot:
Is there any way for a Script plugin to “find” and add new metrics? Normally, these are hardcoded in the xml configuration file of course.
Not currently.
We had a student doing his master thesis on a proof-of-concept for this. Results are in the 'nagios' branch in git. His work is also described here: http://rhq-project.org/display/RHQ/Plugins+-+Nagios (in the attached pdf) That prototype only delivers a full cut through from discovery of types/metrics on agents until peristence in the db, but does not answer questions like what happens if the discovery does no longer find a certain type or metric (you can't just automatically delete stuff, as this may have been the result of some network glitch) etc.
Heiko