How to use community add-ons

[cau.odesk]

Hi, I'm new to Linux and Nagios. Yesterday, I managed to install Nagios 3.3.1 Core on a CentOS 5.8 VM. Tested it to be working using NSClient++ on a Server 2008 machine by following the walkthrough online to windows.cfg and commands.cfg.

My goal for setting up Nagios is to monitor the temperature of my HP Proliant servers to help me decide whether or not to invest in additional cooling systems. I was able to find a community addon for it written in PERL (https://www.monitoringexchange.org/inve ... lo2_health).

I downloaded the the pl file and placed it on my libexec directory. However, I have no idea how to use it. Any advise or quick step-by-step guide or link to a helpful resource will be highly appreciated.

Thanks in advance for any help.

[agriffin]

You need to define a command definition that uses this plugin. Then to set up a check you need to define a service definition that references that command definition. You can see some examples here.