[Nagiosplug-help] Writing Perl plugins for Nagios

[Vroom, Tim]

Hi,
I'd like to write some custom Perl nagios plugins for monitoring some of the
systems I'm responsible for. Basically most of them boil down to sending an
LWP request to a webserver and making sure that the response that comes back
is what is expected.  What are the basic things that are required for a Perl
plugin to work correctly? Are there any gotchas I should look out for? Any
insight or examples would be most helpful. 

Basically I want to send a specific LWP request and get the response.

Either the request times out and I get nothing back

I get a correct response

Or I get an invalid response telling me a service isn't functioning as
expected.

What do I need to do to get this going?

Thanks in Advance,


Tim Vroom
GIS Internet Applications Developer
Northrop Grumman IT
tvroom at ci.grand-rapids.mi.us 

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