Services available for checking with Nagios

[Jason Williams]

Hello everyone.

I just started working with Nagios this week and am really impressed with 
what I have seen. Before I go on, I want to say that I have read the FAQ as 
well as most if not all the documentation. I just wanted to ask a few 
question here to help me continue building my nagios server.

First, i'd like to start off with the available plugins. I have installed 
the .rpm for nagios (I am running this on a Fedora Core 2 test machine, 
with latest stable release of nagios).

I have about a dozen servers here at work, all running a variety of services:

-mysql
-apache
-imap
-pop
-smtp

and a few others.

My question is specifically related to the check_command portion of the 
service. I tried a few of the examples i found in the configs that came 
with nagios: ping, http for instance.

But what im trying to do is find out how to setup the check_command for 
other services, such as mysql, pqsql etc.
So my question is, where can I find out how to setup the check_command for 
specific services? Is there a file that has more information for each 
plugin? I haven't been able to find any readme for each plugin so I thought 
i'd start here.

Also, one last thing. I have a couple servers that I wanted to check for 
multiple services. Does that mean if I want to monitor lets say apache and 
mysql on one box, I need to add it twice to the services.cfg file, one for 
each service?

I appreciate the help. Love the product.

Cheers,

Jason



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