Nagios Support Forum

We are in the process of finalizing Nagios Xi as our monitoring solution, one query:

If we write a plugin in Java. Is then each time the test is executed a java vm started?
I have downloaded a check_jmx plugin and it looks like this
http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Pl ... mx/details

#!/bin/sh
#
# Nagios plugin to monitor Java JMX (http://java.sun.com/jmx)attributes.
#
RDIR=`dirname $0`
java -cp $RDIR/jmxquery.jar org.nagios.JMXQuery $@

and the doc:-
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/plugins.html
where the following is written
Plugins are compiled executables or scripts (Perl scripts, shell scripts, etc.) that can be run from a command line to check the status or a host or service. Nagios uses the results from plugins to determine the current status of hosts and services on your network.

Would you recommend writing Plugins for Nagios in Java?

Thanks and Regards,
Sumit

I don't see any problem with writing plugins in java.

They should be fairly light-weight as compared to other high-level scripting languages.