Due to personal reasons, I am resigning from being the team leader for the Nagios Plugins.

The domain names for the Nagios Plugins website will be transferred to Nagios Enterprises, as this project is owned by Nagios Enterprises. The project will continue to be independently run and managed by the Nagios Plugins Development Team. More details in the FAQ.

The Nagios Plugin Development Team are proud to announce the latest Nagios Plugins release.

This release contains several enhancements, including rate calculation in check_snmp. There are also lots of bug fixes.

Thanks to all the contributors who raised issues or provided patches.

You can get the download from: https://sourceforge.net/projects/nagiosplug/files/

ENHANCEMENTS:
* New check_ntp_peer -m and -n options to check the number of usable time sources ("truechimers")
* New check_disk_smb -a option which allows for specifying the IP address of the remote server

The aim is to create a set of library routines that can be used for saving state information between invocations of a plugin. This way, it is possible to calculate the rate of change and provide threshold calculations on this, rather than just the current state.

This is based on a patch submitted by Alain Williams, Nagios::Plugin::Differences by Jose Luis Martinez and + comments on the mailing list (see references)

Lots of discussion between Holger and I ended up with this.

Content to come

Library will be part of the nagiosplugins repository. Provisionally, make install-libs to install.

The Nagios Plugins Team will be at the Open Source Monitoring Conference in Nuremberg next week!

Thomas Guyot-Sionnest, Matthias Eble and Ton Voon will be at the conference.

The Nagios Plugin Development Team are proud to announce the latest Nagios Plugins release.

This is a bug fix release, which includes some important fixes to --extra-opts (a way of specifying command line options within files).

Thanks to all the contributors who raised issues or provided patches.

You can get the download from: https://sourceforge.net/projects/nagiosplug/files/

Full list of changes:
* check_http has options to specify the HTTP method (#2155152)
* check_users thresholds were not working exactly as documented (>= rather than >)

Overview

This proposal is for a simple plugin wrapper allowing aggregation and serialisation of multiple checks.

A new perl module has been unleashed: Nagios::Plugin::WWW::Mechanize.

This will allow you to write a Nagios plugin to monitor your web site in about 20 lines of code. You can login to your site (POSTing your username and password, depending on how the site handles the credentials), navigate through web pages and check for content. The module even handles returning performance data based on the time taken to make all the web calls.