February 2007
Intermediate to advanced
264 pages
6h 25m
English
This appendix contains command-line options for the Nagios binary and as several frequently used plugins in the plugins tarball.
/path/to/nagios [option] <main_config_file>
The Nagios binary normally starts by way of an init script; however, it can be called from the command line and provides two interesting and useful modes when accessed in this manner.
Table C.1. Nagios Command-Line Options

By nature, all plugins may be executed directly from the command line. The first law of plugins is that they share an -h switch. The -h switch displays information about the ...
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