it's not hard.. i mean really, a little digging around on google, or even just reading the nagios docs should show you how to do it. <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 8:59 PM, mostafa yasin <<a href="mailto:mostafayasin@hotmail.co.uk">mostafayasin@hotmail.co.uk</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div> Dear Sir; Thank you very much for your help. I have copied the script into /usr/local/nagios/libexec and it 's executable and owned by root user. when i run the script manually, it 's running. But how to:<div class="im"> - Write a check command that calls the plugin; if you don’t know it already, you’ll be able to work out the syntax by looking at some of the other check commands in your nagios /etc/ directory, in commands.cfg. - Add a service definition for your iptables host that uses the check command. </div><div class="im"><div> --- Best Regards,, Mostafa Yasin Linux System Engineer.</div> <hr></div>From: <a href="mailto:Ian.Rarity@espc.com" target="_blank">Ian.Rarity@espc.com</a><div class="im"> To: <a href="mailto:nagiosplug-help@lists.sourceforge.net" target="_blank">nagiosplug-help@lists.sourceforge.net</a> </div>Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 09:10:24 +0000 Subject: Re: [Nagiosplug-help] nagios plugins<div><div></div><div class="h5"> <div> You’ll need to: - Copy the script to your plugins directory (/usr/local/nagios/libexec by default) and make sure that it’s executable. - Write a check command that calls the plugin; if you don’t know it already, you’ll be able to work out the syntax by looking at some of the other check commands in your nagios /etc/ directory, in commands.cfg. - Add a service definition for your iptables host that uses the check command. Ta, IR. <div> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ian Rarity IT Services Engineer ESPC (UK) Ltd. 0131-624-8000 07823-530-317 <a href="mailto:ian.rarity@espc.com" target="_blank">ian.rarity@espc.com</a> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= </div> <div> <div style="border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(181, 196, 223) -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color; border-width: 1pt medium medium; padding: 3pt 0cm 0cm;"> From: mostafa yasin [mailto:<a href="mailto:mostafayasin@hotmail.co.uk" target="_blank">mostafayasin@hotmail.co.uk</a>] Sent: 02 February 2010 17:44 To: <a href="mailto:nagiosplug-help@lists.sourceforge.net" target="_blank">nagiosplug-help@lists.sourceforge.net</a> Subject: [Nagiosplug-help] nagios plugins </div> </div> Dear All; I have installed nagios-3.1.2 and i want a plugin to monitor iptables service. 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