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: - 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 Mandrake 10.0 If you have procps 3.1.15, you will need to run configure and then change the PS_COMMAND in config.h to remove the "-" from the ps command