Specific Nagios Plugins

[Jan van den Berg]

Hi there,

 

I' ve been assigned to look into the possibility of writing plugins for
the Nagios system. Right now I am a bit confused of what is so Nagios
specific of these plugins. Say that I write a plugin in C that checks a
MySQL DB for a value and returns somethinig, than this is a self
functioning piece of code which can run without Nagios. So my question
is how are these plugins linked with Nagios what makes them specific
Nagios plugins?

 

Also I am confused; a plugin needs to be run from command line or is
there a way to get the plugin integrated in the webinterface and have it
run every 5 minutes?

 

Regards,

 

Jan van den Berg

PS maybe this question is in the wrong place; please forgive me and
ignore this message.

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