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Hi team,

Our technical teams have over a period created some custom scripts for infrastructure monitoring (OS+DB+App) and some scripts for Reporting as well in multiple languages and are currently looking at the feasibility of adapting them/build on to create custom plugins for nagios instead on running them as a standalone script.

The scripts are developed in below language:

Shell
Perl
Java
Batch
Power Shell
HTML

Please help us with any artifacts/case studies you have in creating plugins to be executed using nagios from standalone scripts.

Have them read the following doc to make sure the plugins are Nagios-compliant:

https://nagios-plugins.org/doc/guidelines.html

And then this one to show how to add new plugins to Nagios and make them proper commands:

http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... ios-XI.pdf

Thanks for the reply.

Are the languages stated in the above post compatible with Nagios?

The short answer is yes, however the items that run on Windows would need to be called through an agent such as NSClient++

Pretty much any language can be used to write plugins for Nagios, as long as it can provide output to stdout.

HTML, however, is not a programming language and cannot be used to write plugins.