The plugins are located in the libexec directory but they need to be defined to be used in nagios and it is done in the checkcommands.cfg file and also in the miscommands.cfg file. As you said those file are refernced in nagios.cfg . So you should copy the source template checkcommands.cfg and miscommands.cfg file to nagios/etc/ <div>2006/3/14, Brunker, Jay <<a href="mailto:Jay.Brunker@twc.state.tx.us">Jay.Brunker@twc.state.tx.us </a>>:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Greetings: YANNG ( Yet Another Nagios Newbie Question ). OK, so my 'make install-commandmode' failed and I manually created a '/usr/local/nagios/etc' filesystem. I copied from source/sample-config to '/usr/local/nagios/etc'. Downloaded and installed the plugins. The thing is ... the plugins install message says to verify that my nagios.cfg file ( hosts.cfg ) file is correct with regards to my plugin directory. OK, so ... I'm assuming that the 'nagios.cfg' file is referring to the 'Plugins' section with: cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/checkcommands.cfg line. I'm confused. I don't have a '/usr/local/nagios/etc/checkcommands.cfg file in my '/usr/local/nagios/etc' directory. I do have the file in my 'source/template-object' directory though. Aren't the plugins in '/usr/local/nagios/libexec' ? Some help/clarification would be most appreciated here. Thanks, JZB Jay Brunker Unix Systems Administrator Texas Workforce Commission 101 E. 15th St. 512-475-2625 Desk Phone 512-849-4985 Pager </blockquote></div> -- Le bon sens est la chose du monde la mieux partagée.