REQUIREMENTS

   1 Nagios Plugin Requirements
   2 --------------------------
   3
   4 Some plugins require that you have additional programs and/or
   5 libraries installed on your system before they can be used.  Plugins
   6 that are dependent on other programs/libraries that are missing are
   7 usually not compiled.  Requirements for various plugins are listed
   8 below...
   9
  10 check_fping:
  11         - Requires the fping utility distributed with SATAN.  Either
  12           download and install SATAN or grab the fping program from
  13           http://www.fping.com
  14           http://www.stanford.edu/~schemers/docs/fping/fping.html
  15                 ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/contrib/libc6/SRPMS/fping-2.2b1-1.src.rpm
  16                 ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/contrib/libc6/RPMS/fping-2.2b1-1.i386.rpm
  17           Note that the fping command must be setuid root to function.
  18
  19 check_game:
  20         - Requires the qstat utility available from
  21           http://www.qstat.org
  22           http://www.activesw.com/people/steve/qstat.html
  23           Last tested on qstat 2.3d BETA
  24
  25 check_hpjd:
  26         - Requires the NET-SNMP package available from
  27           http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net
  28           The snmpget binary is all that is required.
  29
  30 check_ldap:
  31         - Requires the LDAP libraries available from
  32           http://www.openldap.org
  33                 Lib: libldap, liblber
  34                 Redhat Source: openldap-1.2.9-6.i386.rpm, openldap-devel-1.2.9-6.i386.rpm
  35
  36 check_mysql, check_mysql_query:
  37         - Requires the MySQL libraries available from
  38           http://www.mysql.org
  39                 Lib: libmysql, libmysqlclient
  40                 Redhat Powertools Source: mysql-3.20.32a-3.i386.rpm, mysql-devel-3.20.32a-3.i386.rpm (these seem to be broken, however)
  41                 RPMS from www.mysql.org work better
  42           Must have mysql_config in PATH or specified with --with-mysql=DIR for DIR/bin/mysql_config
  43
  44 check_pqsql:
  45         - Requires the PostgreSQL libraries available from
  46           http://www.postgresql.org
  47
  48 check_radius:
  49         - Requires the radiusclient library available from
  50           http://www.cityline.net/~lf/radius/
  51                 RPM (rpmfind): radiusclient-0.3.1-1, radiusclient-devel-0.3.1-1
  52
  53 check_snmp:
  54         - Requires the NET-SNMP package available from
  55           http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net
  56
  57 check_ifstatus/check_ifoperstatus
  58         - Requires Net::SNMP perl module
  59            http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-authors/id/D/DT/DTOWN/
  60
  61 check_nwstat:
  62         - Requires MRTGEXT NLM for Novell Servers
  63           http://www.engr.wisc.edu/~drews/mrtg/
  64
  65 check_nt:
  66         - Requires NSClient to run on the NT server to monitor
  67           http://nsclient.ready2run.nl/
  68
  69 check_ups:
  70        - Requires Network UPS Tools (>= 1.4) to run on the server to monitor
  71          http://www.networkupstools.org/
  72
  73 OS Specific Issues
  74 ------------------
  75
  76 HP-UX 11.11
  77 You need to use the version of gcc provided by HP at version 3.3.3.
  78 Also, you need GNU make 3.8
  79