<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 5.5.2653.12"> <TITLE>Writing Perl plugins for Nagios</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> 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@ci.grand-rapids.mi.us </BODY> </HTML>