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2 | menu: 1 | 2 | menu: 1 |
3 | --- | 3 | --- |
4 | 4 | ||
5 | # The Nagios Plugins Project | 5 | # The Monitoring Plugins Project |
6 | 6 | ||
7 | We, the [Nagios Plugins Development Team][team], maintain a bundle of more | 7 | We, the [Monitoring Plugins Development Team][team], maintain a bundle of more |
8 | than fifty standard plugins for [Nagios][nagios], [Icinga][icinga], | 8 | than fifty standard plugins for [Nagios][nagios], [Icinga][icinga], |
9 | [Shinken][shinken], [Naemon][naemon], and other monitoring applications that | 9 | [Shinken][shinken], [Naemon][naemon], and other monitoring applications. Each |
10 | use the straightforward plugin interface [originally invented][history] by the | 10 | plugin is a stand-alone command line tool that provides a specific type of |
11 | [Nagios folks][folks]. Each plugin is a stand-alone command line tool that | 11 | check. Typically, your monitoring software runs these plugins to determine |
12 | provides a specific type of check. Typically, your monitoring software runs | 12 | the current status of hosts and services on your network. |
13 | these plugins to determine the current status of hosts and services on your | ||
14 | network. | ||
15 | 13 | ||
16 | Some of the provided plugins let you check local system metrics (such as [load | 14 | Some of the provided plugins let you check local system metrics (such as [load |
17 | averages][load], [processes][procs], or [disk space usage][disk]), others use | 15 | averages][load], [processes][procs], or [disk space usage][disk]), others use |
@@ -26,15 +24,19 @@ that makes it [easy][perl-plugins] to write your own plugin. We also take | |||
26 | care of an SNMP MIB used for traps sent from Nagios. Last but not least, we | 24 | care of an SNMP MIB used for traps sent from Nagios. Last but not least, we |
27 | host the [Nagios Plugin Development Guidelines][guidelines]. | 25 | host the [Nagios Plugin Development Guidelines][guidelines]. |
28 | 26 | ||
27 | Our bundle was previously known as the “official” Nagios Plugins package. The | ||
28 | [new name][rename] reflects both the success of the plugin interface | ||
29 | [originally invented][history] by the [Nagios folks][folks], and the | ||
30 | popularity of our package, as the plugins are now used with various other | ||
31 | monitoring products as well. | ||
32 | |||
29 | You can get the latest releases from the [download page][download]. | 33 | You can get the latest releases from the [download page][download]. |
30 | 34 | ||
31 | [team]: team.html "Nagios Plugins Development Team" | 35 | [team]: team.html "Monitoring Plugins Development Team" |
32 | [nagios]: http://www.nagios.org/ "Nagios" | 36 | [nagios]: http://www.nagios.org/ "Nagios" |
33 | [icinga]: https://www.icinga.org/ "Icinga" | 37 | [icinga]: https://www.icinga.org/ "Icinga" |
34 | [shinken]: http://www.shinken-monitoring.org/ "Shinken" | 38 | [shinken]: http://www.shinken-monitoring.org/ "Shinken" |
35 | [naemon]: http://naemon.github.io/ "Naemon" | 39 | [naemon]: http://naemon.github.io/ "Naemon" |
36 | [history]: http://www.nagios.org/about/history "Nagios (Plugins) History" | ||
37 | [folks]: http://www.nagios.org/about/team "Nagios Team" | ||
38 | [load]: doc/man/check_load.html "check_load" | 40 | [load]: doc/man/check_load.html "check_load" |
39 | [procs]: doc/man/check_procs.html "check_procs" | 41 | [procs]: doc/man/check_procs.html "check_procs" |
40 | [disk]: doc/man/check_disk.html "check_disk" | 42 | [disk]: doc/man/check_disk.html "check_disk" |
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46 | [module]: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Nagios-Plugin/ "Nagios::Plugin Module" | 48 | [module]: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Nagios-Plugin/ "Nagios::Plugin Module" |
47 | [guidelines]: doc/guidelines.html "Nagios Plugin Development Guidelines" | 49 | [guidelines]: doc/guidelines.html "Nagios Plugin Development Guidelines" |
48 | [perl-plugins]: doc/writing-perl-plugins.html "Nagios::Plugin Presentation" | 50 | [perl-plugins]: doc/writing-perl-plugins.html "Nagios::Plugin Presentation" |
51 | [rename]: news/new-project-name.html "New Project Name" | ||
52 | [history]: http://www.nagios.org/about/history "Nagios (Plugins) History" | ||
53 | [folks]: http://www.nagios.org/about/team "Nagios Team" | ||
49 | [download]: download.html "Download" | 54 | [download]: download.html "Download" |
50 | 55 | ||
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