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Hello,

Not sure if anyone is still keeping an eye on this thread but I figured I would give it a try.
I have a Nagios server running with Pnp4Nagios installed. The server is communicating with 3 hosts and I am trying to get this plugin to work.
Admittedly this is my first go at Nagios so I have newbie vision, but I cant figure out how to get Nagios to read the data from check_iperf.pl
As I understand it the plugins go (I am using all default locations)
/usr/local/nagios/libexec
1. If that is the right location how do I get Nagios to read this data?
2. I appended the script to add the performance data..could this be fed into pnp4nagios?
3. If I run $perl check_iperf.pl $hostip the script runs, but would I schedule the tests to the host through Nagios?

I appreciate any and all help!

Best,

John

1. If that is the right location how do I get Nagios to read this data?
2. I appended the script to add the performance data..could this be fed into pnp4nagios?
3. If I run $perl check_iperf.pl $hostip the script runs, but would I schedule the tests to the host through Nagios?

1. create a command definition for it, usually in your commands.cfg - this creates a reference so that nagios understands the correlation between a command name -> file to execute on the file system.
2. possibly, Nagios didn't make pnp4nagios, but assuming the perl script has a |yourvar=100000 (rough example), and you have pnp configured properly, it should pick up on it.
3. see #1 - once you create a command, you need to create a service to assign the command to. this page is pretty handy for examples - https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... tions.html

Thanks @tacolover101 for the help.
Let us know if you have anymore questions.
If the edits were done to the plugin, it should be returning performance data and if it is, then pnp4nagios should catch it and create the graphs for you.

Thank you both for the help! Going to try now and will report back on the results.

OK, let us know how it works out.