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Hi All - I want to get a better understanding of how Service Management works, and how the command view/ arguments are read/ defined.

Can you kindly assist in explaining what the below means:

Command view:

$USER1$/check_http $ARG1$ $ARG2$ $ARG3$ $ARG4$ -t 10 -c 5 -w 3

Arguments
1) -H "website".com
2) -l "ip address" -u "/" -S
3) -f follow
4) 2

what does -h, -l, -u, -s, -f and 2 refer too? Where can I find these details??

these are unique on a per. plugin basis. most plugins usually have a 'help' menu to explain what they do.

if you want to look at them in a GUI take a look at this page - http://nagios-plugins.org/doc/man/index.html - or look at check_http specifically http://nagios-plugins.org/doc/man/check_http.html

Tacolover101 - thank you for this information, it was what we were looking for.

Thanks for the assist, tacolover101! questradeinc, are we okay locking the thread?

lock it!