Nagios Plugins


What Are Plugins?

Plugins are compiled executables or scripts (Perl, shell, etc.) that can be run from a command line to check the status or a host or service. Nagios uses the results from plugins to determine the current status or hosts and services on your network. No, you can't get away without using plugins - Nagios is useless without them.

Obtaining Plugins

Plugin development for Nagios is being done at SourceForge. The Nagios plugin development project page (where the latest version of by plugins can always be found) is located at http://sourceforge.net/projects/nagiosplug/.

Creating Custom Plugins

Creating your own plugins to perform custom host or service checks is easy. You can find information on how to write plugins at http://sourceforge.net/projects/nagiosplug/ .