Documentation
Basics
The main Monitoring Plugins documentation is split into two parts:
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Manual Pages
This part provides documentation for each individual plugin. -
FAQ
The FAQ section offers information on the Monitoring Plugins package as a whole.
Advanced Topics
These documents cover specific topics that go beyond the basics:
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Extra-Opts
Telling plugins to read options from a configuration file. -
State Retention Routines
Saving state information between plugin invocations. Also see the FAQ entry on this topic. -
Writing Perl Plugins
This is a video that shows how to write your own check using the Monitoring::Plugin Perl module. -
Monitoring Plugin Development Guidelines
Reference documentation for plugin developers.
Proposals
The following ideas are not yet implemented (and might never be):
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New Specification Method for Thresholds
A different way of specifying thresholds on the command line. -
Check Aggregation: check_many
A plugin wrapper allowing aggregation and serialization of multiple checks.