nagios plugins

[Rue Turner]

John,

I've been trying to find a way into plugin writing so I can migrate all 
of my  custom BB checks into Nagios. Is there a boilerplate plugin a-la 
BB's "ext-proto" ?

Thanks in advance for the pointer

rue

John Jolet wrote:

> I migrated from bb to nagios almost two years ago....well, netsaint, 
> actually....and i'm happier with nagios than with bb, mostly because I 
> like the more centralized setup and lighter-weight agent pieces.
> And I find it easier to write my own check modules for nagios.
>
> At 06:54 PM 8/6/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>
>> I have been using BB for the past year and have grown fairly fond of 
>> it. However, i needed better reporting and a faster response time, 
>> more configurability yada yada yada...  so started looking around and 
>> stopped at Nagios. Although it's younger than BB I find it much more 
>> mature and is highly configurable.
>> It IS a LOT more work to get going but if you go for the 
>> Nagios/MySQL/Nagat type installation the headaches will be worth it.
>> Just to compare, my bb-hosts was about 150-200 lines, compared to 
>> well over 2000 lines of cfg's for Nagios - but don't be put off by 
>> this. It is more complex, yes, but mostly just verbose.
>> I'm comming to the half-way point of my migration from BB to Nagios 
>> and am more than pleased/excited with the results.
>>
>>
>> 8lb4fmllhm001 at sneakemail.com wrote:
>>
>>> Being relatively new to Nagios, I was wondering if anyone who is 
>>> familiar with both Nagios and Big Brother can comment on the 
>>> relative merits of each?
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