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I've been given a task by my supervisor to add a plugin in order to monitor the "Open Manage" software on some Dell servers.I'm pretty new to Nagios and I don't have the entire process down so you'll have to forgive me if there are things I'm missing.

I'm currently trying to use the check_dell_om plugin. The instructions say to place the perl files in the plugin directory for nagios core. I've placed the plugin in the appropriate directory. The problem I'm having is once I go to use the web interface to try assign a server to monitor using the Open Manage plugin I can't see the plugin as an option in the check command field. Are there files I need to configure? is Nagios just not picking up this particular plugin?

Any help would be appreciated.

I'm a bit confused here. Is this a Core question or an XI question? Core does not by default come with a web interface capable of configuring checks.

Perhaps it is a xi question. I think I may have been confusing terminology. I'm definitely trying to configure XI and add this open manage plugin. I thought core was referencing the nagios server, my mistake.

In NagiosXI you need to configure a command for your newly added plugin, then it will be available in the dropdown when you go to create services.

Also, if you're relatively new to adding custom plugins to Nagios I suggest using this plugin instead as the maintainer has GREAT documentation:

http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Pl ... ge/details

As for creating your new custom command, our documentation is here:

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

Let use know if you have any additional questions.

Thanks for the help. I believe I got the hang of it except I run into one problem.

From the Nagios Server when I test the command using an IP address it works fine. When I use a host name it responds back with "SNMP Critical: No response from remote host"

If I run the command through nagios xi it gives me the same error.

I've configured the SNMP service on the server to accept the nagios server IP and community name. I'm not sure what's wrong. Any idea on what I'm doing wrong?

Sorry guys forget that last post. I got it figured out. I missed a "1" in the IP address when setting up the hosts file. It's all working great ty!

I'll be closing this thread now, but feel free to open another if you need anything in the future!