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# The Nagios Plugins Project
We, the [Nagios 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.
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
various network protocols (such as [ICMP][icmp], [SNMP][snmp], or
[HTTP][http]) to perform remote checks. This allows for monitoring a large
number of common host and service types. For more specific needs, thousands
of community-contributed plugins can be found on sites such as [Nagios
Exchange][nagex] or [Monitoring Exchange][monex].
In addition to the core plugins bundle, we maintain a [Perl module][module]
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].
You can get the latest releases from the [download page][download].
[team]: team.html "Nagios 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"
[icmp]: doc/man/check_icmp.html "check_icmp"
[snmp]: doc/man/check_snmp.html "check_snmp"
[http]: doc/man/check_http.html "check_http"
[nagex]: http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins "Plugins on Nagios Exchange"
[monex]: https://www.monitoringexchange.org/inventory/Check-Plugins "Plugins on Monitoring Exchange"
[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"
[download]: download.html "Download"
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