I am trying to learn to write plugins for Check_mk and start with the foobar example from the documentation on plugin development. I am running Check_mk locally on a windows computer in docker, and am having trouble getting the example to produce the expected output. Inside docker container, in loc…

Hi @Elaak It’s the Agent on you Windows which needs to return the <<<foobar>>> section to checkmk. With the command cmk --dump-agent Home you should get the output of the agent of your Windows instance. Inthere there need to be the <<<foobar>>> and the following lines. So you need to create this…

Foobar example plugin not working

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Jiuka (Marius Rieder) April 14, 2021, 3:46pm 2

In an other thread there was a comment about the --detect-plugins parameter not working correctly. You may need to try it without this parameter.