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Just installed Nagios Core on Ubuntu using the Synaptics Package Manager. Downloaded the IPMI Sensor Monitoring Plugin, unzipped the file and copied the sensor to the Nagios plugins directory.

Not sure what to do next. How do I actually use this plugin?

My goal is to use Nagios Core to monitor a few systems using IPMI, specifically for monitoring hardware health.

Can someone help me out? I'm a complete newbie when it comes to linux and IPMI.

The basic answer to your question is that you create a command for the plugin, and then the command is used in a service.

IF you are completely new to Nagios then I suggest you take a step backwards first. Before trying to get the IPMI Sensor Monitoring Plugin working, follow some of the guides:
Windows http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/nagi ... ndows.html
Network Printer http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/nagi ... nters.html

This will give you a crash course in object definitions and from there it will make sense how to get the IPMI Sensor Monitoring Plugin working.

FYI, with the IPMI plugin, test it from a command line first. Once you are familiar with how it works, then you can understand how to create a command definition for it.