Monitor...:Config(3)

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version 0.40 · 7 versions
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💖 NAME 💖

Monitoring::Plugin::Config is the module that reads nagios plugin .ini style config files, and honestly it's giving very useful bestie energy. This is the Monitor...:Config(3) page, hanging out in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

Okay so the whole vibe is literally this:

# Read given nagios plugin config file
$Config = Monitoring::Plugin::Config->read( '/etc/nagios/plugins.ini' );

# Search for and read default nagios plugin config file
$Config = Monitoring::Plugin::Config->read();

# Access sections and properties (returns scalars or arrayrefs)
$rootproperty =  $Config->{_}->{rootproperty};
$one = $Config->{section}->{one};
$Foo = $Config->{section}->{Foo};

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Monitoring::Plugin::Config is a subclass of the excellent Config::Tiny, bestie, with these changes:

  • Repeated keys are allowed within sections, returning lists instead of scalars. So if a key shows up more than once, you're getting a list back, not a single scalar — slay.
  • Write functionality has been removed i.e. access is read only. No writing, periodt. Read only, fr fr.
  • Monitoring::Plugin::Config searches for a default nagios plugins file if no explicit filename is given to read(). The current standard locations checked are:
/etc/nagios/plugins.ini
/usr/local/nagios/etc/plugins.ini
/usr/local/etc/nagios /etc/opt/nagios/plugins.ini
/etc/nagios-plugins.ini
/usr/local/etc/nagios-plugins.ini
/etc/opt/nagios-plugins.ini

To use a custom location, set a NAGIOS_CONFIG_PATH environment variable to the set of directories that should be checked. The first plugins.ini or nagios-plugins.ini file found will be used.

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

Go peek at the cousins: Config::Tiny, Monitoring::Plugin. Iykyk.

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

This code is maintained by the Monitoring Plugin Development Team: see https://monitoring-plugins.org.

Copyright (C) 2014 by Monitoring Plugin Team Copyright (C) 2006-2014 by Nagios Plugin Development Team

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

Catch you later, bestie — signed off with perl v5.42.0, dated 2018-08-02, and the page is Monitor...:Config(3). Stay config-coded. 💅💖

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