How do I update to Monitoring Plugins?
If you installed the Nagios Plugins package in the past and now plan to use a Monitoring Plugins release, you should check whether your operating system vendor provides an official package. If no such package exists, you might have to install the Monitoring Plugins from source.
You must then make sure the new plugins are found by your monitoring
application. While the Nagios Plugins were usually installed into the
directory /usr/local/nagios/libexec
when built from the source tarball, the
Monitoring Plugins are by default installed to /usr/local/libexec
. You can
change this by specifying the --prefix
option when calling the ./configure
script. For example, the following commands would install the Monitoring
Plugins into the old location:
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/nagios
$ make
$ su root -c 'make install'
If you prefer the new location (/usr/local/libexec
), you must adjust your
monitoring application's configuration instead. The details obviously depend
on the software you're using. If in doubt, you will probably find the right
place(s) to modify by searching your configuration for the old pathname, e.g.:
$ grep -r /usr/local/nagios /etc
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