1 Nagios Plugin Requirements
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4 Some plugins require that you have additional programs and/or
5 libraries installed on your system before they can be used. Plugins
6 that are dependent on other programs/libraries that are missing are
7 usually not compiled. Requirements for various plugins are listed
8 below...
10 check_fping:
11 - Requires the fping utility distributed with SATAN. Either
12 download and install SATAN or grab the fping program from
13 http://www.fping.com
14 http://www.stanford.edu/~schemers/docs/fping/fping.html
15 ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/contrib/libc6/SRPMS/fping-2.2b1-1.src.rpm
16 ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/contrib/libc6/RPMS/fping-2.2b1-1.i386.rpm
17 Note that the fping command must be setuid root to function.
19 check_game:
20 - Requires the qstat utility available from
21 http://www.qstat.org
22 http://www.activesw.com/people/steve/qstat.html
23 Last tested on qstat 2.3d BETA
25 check_hpjd:
26 - Requires the NET-SNMP package available from
27 http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net
28 The snmpget binary is all that is required.
30 check_ldap:
31 - Requires the LDAP libraries available from
32 http://www.openldap.org
33 Lib: libldap, liblber
34 Redhat Source: openldap-1.2.9-6.i386.rpm, openldap-devel-1.2.9-6.i386.rpm
36 check_mysql:
37 - Requires the MySQL libraries available from
38 http://www.mysql.org
39 Lib: libmysql, libmysqlclient
40 Redhat Powertools Source: mysql-3.20.32a-3.i386.rpm, mysql-devel-3.20.32a-3.i386.rpm (these seem to be broken, however)
41 RPMS from www.mysql.org work better
43 check_pqsql:
44 - Requires the PostgreSQL libraries available from
45 http://www.postgresql.org
47 check_radius:
48 - Requires the radiusclient library available from
49 http://www.cityline.net/~lf/radius/
50 RPM (rpmfind): radiusclient-0.3.1-1, radiusclient-devel-0.3.1-1
52 check_snmp:
53 - Requires the NET-SNMP package available from
54 http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net
56 check_ifstatus/check_ifoperstatus
57 - Requires Net::SNMP perl module
58 http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-authors/id/D/DT/DTOWN/
60 check_nwstat:
61 - Requires MRTGEXT NLM for Novell Servers
62 http://www.engr.wisc.edu/~drews/mrtg/
64 check_nt:
65 - Requires NSClient to run on the NT server to monitor
66 http://nsclient.ready2run.nl/