Services available for checking with Nagios

[Jan Scholten]

./check_PLUGINNAME --help is the best and normally the only why to do that  
:-)

AFAIK there is no Plugin-Readme, but every plugin in the packages (not  
sure about the ones in contrib) has a --help switch!

Jan

> Hello everyone.
>
> I just started working with Nagios this week and am really impressed  
> with what I have seen. Before I go on, I want to say that I have read  
> the FAQ as well as most if not all the documentation. I just wanted to  
> ask a few question here to help me continue building my nagios server.
>
> First, i'd like to start off with the available plugins. I have  
> installed the .rpm for nagios (I am running this on a Fedora Core 2 test  
> machine, with latest stable release of nagios).
>
> I have about a dozen servers here at work, all running a variety of  
> services:
>
> -mysql
> -apache
> -imap
> -pop
> -smtp
>
> and a few others.
>
> My question is specifically related to the check_command portion of the  
> service. I tried a few of the examples i found in the configs that came  
> with nagios: ping, http for instance.
>
> But what im trying to do is find out how to setup the check_command for  
> other services, such as mysql, pqsql etc.
> So my question is, where can I find out how to setup the check_command  
> for specific services? Is there a file that has more information for  
> each plugin? I haven't been able to find any readme for each plugin so I  
> thought i'd start here.
>
> Also, one last thing. I have a couple servers that I wanted to check for  
> multiple services. Does that mean if I want to monitor lets say apache  
> and mysql on one box, I need to add it twice to the services.cfg file,  
> one for each service?
>
> I appreciate the help. Love the product.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jason
>
>
>
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Jan Scholten
Research and Development Intern
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