From the course: Learning Nagios
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Nagios concepts - Nagios Tutorial
From the course: Learning Nagios
Nagios concepts
The name plugin makes these sound complicated, but Nagios plugins are really just scripts that follow a basic syntax. We'll talk more about that later, but this example is a functional plugin that will give you a warning if the user Bob doesn't exist on a given machine. It's really just a single line bash script, that's probably not going to be useful to you, chances are you'll need to monitor something that doesn't have a plugin already, and if that's the case, it's pretty simple We'll look into that in a later section.
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