[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#649677: check_mk plugins

[Matt Taggart]

Looking at #649677 about enabling the check-mk smart plugin...

I think this could be handled like we handle the logwatch
plugin, with a separate package. That way nodes without smart (like
VMs for example) don't need it installed/run.

But there are other things in plugins/ that might be interesting too,
and I don't think they all warrant their own package. So maybe we
should do something like the nagios plugin does with groupings of
plugins in a couple packages.

Also: unfortunately having a plugin in
  /usr/lib/check_mk_agent/plugins/
enables it, so we can't just deliver them all there and then count on
the administrator to enable the ones we want. We could deliver them to
something like /usr/share/check-mk-agents/plugins/ and then instruct
the admin to symlink to them...

I reviewed the list of available upstream plugins and categorized them:

already in debian:
mk_logwatch

maybe interesting for debian:
apache_status
isc_dhcpd
lnx_quota
lvm
mailman_lists
mk_inventory.linux
mk_logins
mk_mysql
mk_postgres
mk_users
netstat.linux
nfsexports
nginx_status
runas
smart

unclear:
dnsclient: uses nslookup
mk_apt: similar to unattended upgrades?
mk_jolokia

depend on non-free:
db2_mem
jar_signature: some oracle thing?
kaspersky_av
mk_db2.linux
mk_oracle
mk_oracle_asm
mk_oracle_crs
mk_sap
mk_tsm
plesk_backups
plesk_domains
symantec_av
unitrends_backup
unitrends_replication
vxvm
websphere_mq

not relevant: (and maybe depend on non-free too)
hpux_lunstats
hpux_statgrab
mk_db2.aix
mk_haproxy.freebsd: maybe linux version?
mk_inventory.aix
mk_inventory.solaris
mk_logwatch.aix
mk_oracle.aix
mk_oracle.solaris
mk_sap.aix
netstat.aix
mk_zypper: SuSE thing
nfsexports.solaris

If anyone has any opinions on these plugins or how they should be
packaged, please send it to #649677. I will try to look at them soon.

-- 
Matt Taggart
taggart at debian.org