Added a checkenabled() function which can be used to disable a plugin at run-time.

Planning to add a command-line option to force the execution of plugins.


git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.fedorahosted.org/svn/sos/trunk@105 ef72aa8b-4018-0410-8976-d6e080ef94d8

2 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/lib/sos/plugintools.py b/src/lib/sos/plugintools.py
index 3e7e9881..b5741e27 100644
--- a/src/lib/sos/plugintools.py
+++ b/src/lib/sos/plugintools.py
@@ -380,6 +380,12 @@ class PluginBase:
               raise KeyboardInterrupt
             except:
                 self.cInfo['soslog'].error("Error collecting output of '%s'" % prog,)
+
+    def checkenabled(self):
+        """ This function can be overidden to let the plugin decide whether
+        it should run or not.
+        """
+        return True 
     
     def collect(self):
         """ This function has been replaced with setup().  Please change your
diff --git a/src/sosreport b/src/sosreport
index 894537b8..3adbbb8e 100755
--- a/src/sosreport
+++ b/src/sosreport
@@ -303,6 +303,9 @@ def sosreport():
                     else:
                         soslog.warning("Plugin %s does not validate, skipping" % plug)
                         continue
+                    if pluginClass(plugbase, commons).checkenabled:
+                        soslog.debug("Plugin %s auto-disabled itself." % plug)
+                        continue
                     loadedplugins.append((plugbase, pluginClass(plugbase, commons)))
                 except:
                     soslog.warning("Plugin %s does not install, skipping" % plug)