Checkman documentation?

[dtuecks (Daniel Tücks)]

Maybe I’m blind, but could someone tell me where I can find the official documentation to create a “checkman” for a plugin?

[MarcS]

Hello Daniel,

Unfortunately, nobody will be able to tell you because the documentary doesn’t exist.

There is a small guideline but nothing more:

Guidelines for coding check plug-ins

If you have specific questions, try the forum here.

[Dirk]

In addition to what Marc said you can use some very few formatting things, but that’s it.

They should really support HTML manpages but they don’t

Writing man pages for new extensions

I’m sorry to tell you but unfortunately there is no further documentation about manpages. The only thing you can do is look at the existing manpages and use them as templates. In the description section (below the header) you can force a line break with <br> and highlight text by enclosing it in {curly braces}. That text is either rendered bold (if displayed at the bottom of a service’s details) or monospaced (in the dedicated manpage view of a check). Besides that, no further formatting i…

[dtuecks (Daniel Tücks)]

Thank you guys. That will still help me anyway.

[MarcS]

@Dirk

They should really support HTML manpages but they don’t

I prefer Markdown
https://ideas.checkmk.com/suggestions/646493/markdown-for-plugin-manuals