1.4 Installing and Testing Plugins

What is now still missing are the plugins. They must be downloaded separately from http://www.nagios.org/ and installed. As independent programs, they are subject to a different versioning system than Nagios. The current version at the time of going to press was version 1.4.11, but you can, for example, also use plugins from earlier version if you don't mind doing without the most recent features. Although the plugins are distributed in a common source distribution, they are independent of one another, so that you can replace one version of an individual plugin with another one at any time, or with one you have written yourself.

1.4.1 Installation

The installation of the plugin sources takes place, like the Nagios ...

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