09-18-2009
creating nagios plugins and defining services
Hello friends,
i have essential nagios documents and some basic configuration documents but they dont meet my needs, so i would like to have a detailed, comprehensive documents that refers to pluggins, how to configure a complex nagios script as a service, maybe even how to trigger another script in error case or send sms in case of fatal. I would appreciate if you share anything usefull with me,
thanks in advance
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icingastats(8) icinga icingastats(8)
NAME
icingastats - report statistics information from the Icinga system
SYNOPSIS
icingastats [-hVL] [-c config] [-m] [-d]
DESCRIPTION
icingastats Is a program designed to provide information on the running Icinga system. It can provide a brief summary of information, or
it can be used to export specific information about the nagios system into an MRTG-compatible format. For more information please consult
the Icinga online documentation available at http://www.icinga.org or the documentation available with your icinga server's web page.
OPTIONS
-c|--config=FILE
The main configuration file. On debian systems this defaults to /etc/icinga/icinga.cfg
-m|--mrtg
Print output in MRTG-compatible format. For more details run icingastats with --help
-d|--data=VARS
Comma-seperated list of variables to output in MRTG format. For more details run icingastats with --help.
-h|--help
A helpful usage message
-V|--version
Print version information
-L|--license
Print license details
FILES
/etc/icinga
Default configuration directory for icinga
AUTHOR
Icinga was started as Nagios by Ethan Galstad <nagios@nagios.org>. Icinga is maintained by the Icinga Project <info@icinga.org>. This
manual page was written by sean finney <seanius@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux operating system (but it may be freely used, modified,
and redistributed by others).
sean finney February 2006 icingastats(8)