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I'm writing a simple Perl plugin to check the response times of a few different webpages. I want to extract links from a url using Mechanize. The documentation seems pretty straight forward but my test is already failing to run with only a few simple lines: This test runs fine: #!/usr/bin/perl use s...

Fixed this finally. For some reason the 'service nagios-nrpe-server restart' wasn't sufficient in refreshing the online dashboard & showing new plugins. To fix this I had to restart nagios form within the dashboard. Click on process info in the left menu, then choose to restart nagios process . ...

Everything looks good in there, strange...

Yes, I've been restarting steadily thinking that might be the issue.

I'm attempting to configure a plugin that tests the response status of a particular webpage every n minutes. In /usr/lib/nagios/plugins I've added the plugin: nameof-test.sh . In /etc/nagios-plugins/config/nameof-test.cfg I've put the command definition: define command { command_name check_specific ...

Thanks!

Perfect, thanks!

I'm looking for a straight forward way to send test notifications.

I'd like to do this without having to write a custom check/test, and without having to purposely trigger a real problem to force the notification.

Is there a way of doing this?

Thanks in advance!

Thanks so much for the quick reply.

Could you confirm where I set the variables, such as: $HOSTADDRESS$. Or are they globally set by nagios and stay the same for everyone?

I have Nagios setup and e-mail notifications are being sent successfully, however, currently notifications don't tell me which host is having problems. I have multiple servers running, and would like to have notifications tell me specifically which server is down/having trouble. So basically, how do...