Monitoring Palo Alto 5220 appliance

[benningtonr]

I am trying to find info on monitoring our new 5220 Palo Alto Firewalls. I have looked and downloaded one .pl and i have it uploaded to the nagios server, but from there I am not sure what to do. I am not a strong Linux person nor have I setup a new .PL in 5-6 years.

Thank you for any help.

[scottwilkerson]

Here are some basic steps for walking through adding and setting up new plugins
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ios-XI.pdf

The basics to be sure is to test the plugin from the command line to make sure it is giving correct output before going any further to configure the command.

[cdienger]

Is a .pl a perl script? Can you provide the name or a link to it?

https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ios-XI.pdf covers how to import and configure a new plugin in XI.

Luckily not a lot of Linux know how is needed beyond navigating to the directory it is stored in:

cd /usr/local/nagios/libexec

and running the plugin to verify the syntax and that it works. Usually running one of these:

./plugin_name
./plugin_name --help

will give you more info on exactly how to run the plugin.