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/
68 check_ups:
69 - Requires Network UPS Tools (>= 1.4) to run on the server to monitor
70 http://www.networkupstools.org/
72 OS Specific Issues
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75 HP-UX 11.11
76 You need to use the version of gcc provided by HP at version 3.3.3.
77 Also, you need GNU make 3.8
79 Mandrake 10.0
80 If you have procps 3.1.15, you will need to run configure and then change
81 the PS_COMMAND in config.h to remove the "-" from the ps command