How to use Nagios Plugins

[ebutte]

I am new to Nagios and struggling to with some basic concept comprehension/configuration issue (I suspect). My manager is out of town and a day of searching the internet hasn't let me to a solution, so I would appreciate a push in the right direction.

As a training exercise, I've added my company provided Windows workstation as a host on our Nagios application. I've successfully installed NSClient++ and am able to monitor various host resources.

Nagios is hosted on a separate Red Hat Linux server that I do NOT have access to. Instead, I manipulate Nagios with the NagiosQL addon.

My question is: Can I use Nagios plugins without having access to the Nagios servers command line and file system? If so, how?

I've visited the Nagios Exchange and picked out a plugin, but without being able to add that file to the Nagios server directly, can I still use plugins?

My current understanding is that the plugin file would normally be saved to the /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/... folder on the Nagios Server - but that is a location I cannot access directly.

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks!

[tmcdonald]

Unfortunately you'll need legitimate access to the Nagios server to upload plugins.

[ebutte]

I suspected as much. Thank you for the info!

[cdienger]

Was there anything further we can help with or are we okay locking this thread?