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 RPM: http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=fping
15 Note that the fping command must be setuid root to function.
17 check_game:
18 - Requires the qstat utility available from
19 http://sourceforge.net/projects/qstat/
20 Last tested on qstat 2.3d BETA
22 check_hpjd:
23 - Requires the NET-SNMP package available from
24 http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/
25 The snmpget binary is all that is required.
27 check_ldap:
28 - Requires the LDAP libraries available from
29 http://www.openldap.org/
30 Lib: libldap, liblber
31 Redhat Source: openldap-1.2.9-6.i386.rpm, openldap-devel-1.2.9-6.i386.rpm
33 check_mysql, check_mysql_query:
34 - Requires the MySQL libraries available from
35 http://www.mysql.org/
36 Lib: libmysql, libmysqlclient
37 Redhat Powertools Source: mysql-3.20.32a-3.i386.rpm, mysql-devel-3.20.32a-3.i386.rpm (these seem to be broken, however)
38 RPMS from www.mysql.org work better
39 Must have mysql_config in PATH or specified with --with-mysql=DIR for DIR/bin/mysql_config
41 check_pqsql:
42 - Requires the PostgreSQL libraries available from
43 http://www.postgresql.org/
45 check_radius:
46 - Requires the radiusclient library available from
47 ftp://ftp.cityline.net/pub/radiusclient/
48 RPM (rpmfind): radiusclient 0.3.2, radiusclient-devel-0.3.2
49 - Alternatively radiusclient-ng can be used:
50 http://developer.berlios.de/projects/radiusclient-ng/
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://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?mrtgext
64 check_nt:
65 - Requires NSClient to run on the NT server to monitor
66 http://nsclient.ready2run.nl/
68 check_ups:
69 - Requires Network UPS Tools (>= 1.4) to run on the server to monitor
70 http://www.networkupstools.org/
72 check_ide_smart:
73 - Uses the Linux specific SMART interface [http://smartlinux.sourceforge.net/smart/index.php].
75 OS Specific Issues
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78 HP-UX 11.11
79 You need to use the version of gcc provided by HP at version 3.3.3.
80 Also, you need GNU make 3.8