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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Hello,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">i want to use come</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">of the Standard Plugins e.g. check_http, check_ssl, check_ping, check_tcp and a special check_x224 plugin for an integration in another commercial monitoring tool (BMC Patrol) by separating the plugins from the complete Nagios server installation. This means the plugins should be copied on another server and the complete Nagios installation should be deinstalled and deleted. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">My idea is to setup an patrol agent on a virtual server and integrate some Patrol Agent parameter. In the parameter a function should be start the plugin with a list of attributes (plugin parameters) stored in Patrol Configuration Manager.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">The result of the plugin should be parsed an put into an event inside Patrol Event Manager.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Regarding my plan I have some questions:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">- </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">What are the plugin licenced under, GPL, GPLv2 or v3 ?</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">- </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Can I use the plugins without a Nagios Server for my own project or is this not GPL konform ?</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">- </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">If I can use them, what is mandatory for my development and for the BMC Patrol Agent or BMC Software ?</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">- </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Is the BMC licences endanger ? </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">- </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">What is forbidden</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">(e.g.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">plugin usage, plugin provis</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">ion, plugin start, plugin result parsing) ?</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I hope you can he</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">lp me with this critical licence issues.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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