From 0f0a943d5429cf8db0f7f6cc9bc2679ed9329901 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Holger Weiss Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 22:58:44 +0100 Subject: Rename Nagios Plugins to Monitoring Plugins This is a first step of replacing the name "Nagios Plugins" with "Monitoring Plugins" where appriopriate. Some news items and FAQ entries are also created or updated. More to come. --- web/input/index.md | 27 ++++++++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) (limited to 'web/input/index.md') diff --git a/web/input/index.md b/web/input/index.md index fcdf68e..fc8a0ce 100644 --- a/web/input/index.md +++ b/web/input/index.md @@ -2,16 +2,14 @@ title: Home menu: 1 --- -# The Nagios Plugins Project +# The Monitoring Plugins Project -We, the [Nagios Plugins Development Team][team], maintain a bundle of more +We, the [Monitoring Plugins Development Team][team], maintain a bundle of more than fifty standard plugins for [Nagios][nagios], [Icinga][icinga], -[Shinken][shinken], [Naemon][naemon], and other monitoring applications that -use the straightforward plugin interface [originally invented][history] by the -[Nagios folks][folks]. Each plugin is a stand-alone command line tool that -provides a specific type of check. Typically, your monitoring software runs -these plugins to determine the current status of hosts and services on your -network. +[Shinken][shinken], [Naemon][naemon], and other monitoring applications. Each +plugin is a stand-alone command line tool that provides a specific type of +check. Typically, your monitoring software runs these plugins to determine +the current status of hosts and services on your network. Some of the provided plugins let you check local system metrics (such as [load 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 care of an SNMP MIB used for traps sent from Nagios. Last but not least, we host the [Nagios Plugin Development Guidelines][guidelines]. +Our bundle was previously known as the “official” Nagios Plugins package. The +[new name][rename] reflects both the success of the plugin interface +[originally invented][history] by the [Nagios folks][folks], and the +popularity of our package, as the plugins are now used with various other +monitoring products as well. + You can get the latest releases from the [download page][download]. -[team]: team.html "Nagios Plugins Development Team" +[team]: team.html "Monitoring Plugins Development Team" [nagios]: http://www.nagios.org/ "Nagios" [icinga]: https://www.icinga.org/ "Icinga" [shinken]: http://www.shinken-monitoring.org/ "Shinken" [naemon]: http://naemon.github.io/ "Naemon" -[history]: http://www.nagios.org/about/history "Nagios (Plugins) History" -[folks]: http://www.nagios.org/about/team "Nagios Team" [load]: doc/man/check_load.html "check_load" [procs]: doc/man/check_procs.html "check_procs" [disk]: doc/man/check_disk.html "check_disk" @@ -46,6 +48,9 @@ You can get the latest releases from the [download page][download]. [module]: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Nagios-Plugin/ "Nagios::Plugin Module" [guidelines]: doc/guidelines.html "Nagios Plugin Development Guidelines" [perl-plugins]: doc/writing-perl-plugins.html "Nagios::Plugin Presentation" +[rename]: news/new-project-name.html "New Project Name" +[history]: http://www.nagios.org/about/history "Nagios (Plugins) History" +[folks]: http://www.nagios.org/about/team "Nagios Team" [download]: download.html "Download" -- cgit v1.2.3-74-g34f1