Creating custom active checks
One of the most common areas where Nagios can be suited to fit your needs is that of active checks. These are the checks that are scheduled and run by the Nagios daemon. This functionality is described in more detail in Chapter 2, Installing Nagios 4.
Nagios has a project that ships the commonly-used plugins and comes with a large variety of checks that can be performed. Before thinking of writing anything on your own, it is best to check for standard plugins (described in detail in Chapter 6, Using the Nagios Plugins).
Note
The NagiosExchange (http://exchange.nagios.org) website contains multiple ready to use plugins for performing active checks. It is recommended that you check whether somebody has already written ...
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