Nagios Plugin Requirements -------------------------- Some plugins require that you have additional programs and/or libraries installed on your system before they can be used. Plugins that are dependent on other programs/libraries that are missing are usually not compiled. Requirements for various plugins are listed below... check_fping: - Requires the fping utility distributed with SATAN. Either download and install SATAN or grab the fping program from http://www.fping.com http://www.stanford.edu/~schemers/docs/fping/fping.html ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/contrib/libc6/SRPMS/fping-2.2b1-1.src.rpm ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/contrib/libc6/RPMS/fping-2.2b1-1.i386.rpm Note that the fping command must be setuid root to function. check_game: - Requires the qstat utility available from http://www.qstat.org http://www.activesw.com/people/steve/qstat.html Last tested on qstat 2.3d BETA check_hpjd: - Requires the NET-SNMP package available from http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net The snmpget binary is all that is required. check_ldap: - Requires the LDAP libraries available from http://www.openldap.org Lib: libldap, liblber Redhat Source: openldap-1.2.9-6.i386.rpm, openldap-devel-1.2.9-6.i386.rpm check_mysql, check_mysql_query: - Requires the MySQL libraries available from http://www.mysql.org Lib: libmysql, libmysqlclient Redhat Powertools Source: mysql-3.20.32a-3.i386.rpm, mysql-devel-3.20.32a-3.i386.rpm (these seem to be broken, however) RPMS from www.mysql.org work better check_pqsql: - Requires the PostgreSQL libraries available from http://www.postgresql.org check_radius: - Requires the radiusclient library available from http://www.cityline.net/~lf/radius/ RPM (rpmfind): radiusclient-0.3.1-1, radiusclient-devel-0.3.1-1 check_snmp: - Requires the NET-SNMP package available from http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net check_ifstatus/check_ifoperstatus - Requires Net::SNMP perl module http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-authors/id/D/DT/DTOWN/ check_nwstat: - Requires MRTGEXT NLM for Novell Servers http://www.engr.wisc.edu/~drews/mrtg/ check_nt: - Requires NSClient to run on the NT server to monitor http://nsclient.ready2run.nl/ check_ups: - Requires Network UPS Tools (>= 1.4) to run on the server to monitor http://www.networkupstools.org/ OS Specific Issues ------------------ HP-UX 11.11 You need to use the version of gcc provided by HP at version 3.3.3. Also, you need GNU make 3.8