plugin question

[Steve Shipway]

>I am aware with the readings here that you are able to write 
>custom plugins for this application.  There is ways then to 
>say use your own custom shell script lets say to pass a sting 
>to a web server and check to see how long it takes to give you 
>a response and base your alerts on that criteria?

We already do this using the standard check_http plugin.  However, writing
your own plugins for NRPE is extremely easy, as has already been mentioned.
I've produced a whole set of them here for some more specific needs
(checking Oracle, RAID arrays, LVM, etc)

Steve

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