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The check_nagios Plugin

check_nagios v2.4.0.7.g78ce (monitoring-plugins 2.4git)
Copyright (c) 1999-2007 Monitoring Plugins Development Team
    <devel@monitoring-plugins.org>

This plugin checks the status of the Nagios process on the local machine
The plugin will check to make sure the Nagios status log is no older than
the number of minutes specified by the expires option.
It also checks the process table for a process matching the command argument.

Usage:
check_nagios -F <status log file> -t <timeout_seconds> -e <expire_minutes> -C <process_string>

Options:
 -h, --help
    Print detailed help screen
 -V, --version
    Print version information
 --extra-opts=[section][@file]
    Read options from an ini file. See
    https://www.monitoring-plugins.org/doc/extra-opts.html
    for usage and examples.
 -F, --filename=FILE
    Name of the log file to check
 -e, --expires=INTEGER
    Minutes aging after which logfile is considered stale
 -C, --command=STRING
    Substring to search for in process arguments
 -t, --timeout=INTEGER
    Timeout for the plugin in seconds
 -v, --verbose
    Show details for command-line debugging (output may be truncated by
    the monitoring system)

Examples:
 check_nagios -t 20 -e 5 -F /usr/local/nagios/var/status.log -C /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios

Send email to help@monitoring-plugins.org if you have questions regarding
use of this software. To submit patches or suggest improvements, send email
to devel@monitoring-plugins.org