Basic Plugin Documentation

The main Nagios Plugins documentation is split into two parts:

1. Manual Pages
   This part provides documentation for each individual plugin that is included in the official Nagios Plugins distribution.
2. FAQ
   The FAQ section offers additional information on the Nagios Plugins package as a whole.

Advanced Plugin Topics

These documents cover specific topics that go beyond the basics:

• Extra-Opts
  Telling plugins to read options from a configuration file.
• Nagios Plugin Development Guidelines
  Reference documentation for plugin developers.

Proposals

The following ideas are not yet implemented (and might never be):

• New Specification Method for Thresholds
  A different way of specifying thresholds on the command line.
• Check Aggregation: check_many
  A plugin wrapper allowing aggregation and serialization of multiple checks.
• State Retention Routines
  Saving state information between plugin invocations. This is actually implemented by now.