REQUIREMENTS

Nagios Plugin Requirements
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Some plugins require that you have additional programs and/or
libraries installed on your system before they can be used.  Plugins
that are dependent on other programs/libraries that are missing are
usually not compiled.  Requirements for various plugins are listed
below...

check_fping:
	- Requires the fping utility distributed with SATAN.  Either
	  download and install SATAN or grab the fping program from
	  http://www.fping.com/
		RPM: http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=fping
	  Note that the fping command must be setuid root to function.

check_game:
	- Requires the qstat utility available from
	  http://sourceforge.net/projects/qstat/
	  Last tested on qstat 2.3d BETA

check_hpjd:
	- Requires the NET-SNMP package available from
	  http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/
	  The snmpget binary is all that is required.

check_ldap:
	- Requires the LDAP libraries available from
	  http://www.openldap.org/
		Lib: libldap, liblber
		Redhat Source: openldap-1.2.9-6.i386.rpm, openldap-devel-1.2.9-6.i386.rpm

check_mysql, check_mysql_query:
	- Requires the MySQL libraries available from
	  http://www.mysql.org/
		Lib: libmysql, libmysqlclient
		Redhat Powertools Source: mysql-3.20.32a-3.i386.rpm, mysql-devel-3.20.32a-3.i386.rpm (these seem to be broken, however)
		RPMS from www.mysql.org work better
	  Must have mysql_config in PATH or specified with --with-mysql=DIR for DIR/bin/mysql_config

check_pqsql:
	- Requires the PostgreSQL libraries available from
	  http://www.postgresql.org/

check_radius:
	- Requires the radiusclient library available from
	  ftp://ftp.cityline.net/pub/radiusclient/
		RPM (rpmfind): radiusclient 0.3.2, radiusclient-devel-0.3.2
	- Alternatively radiusclient-ng can be used:
	  http://developer.berlios.de/projects/radiusclient-ng/

check_snmp:
	- Requires the NET-SNMP package available from
	  http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/

check_ifstatus/check_ifoperstatus
	- Requires Net::SNMP perl module
	  http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-authors/id/D/DT/DTOWN/

check_nwstat:
	- Requires MRTGEXT NLM for Novell Servers
	  http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?mrtgext

check_nt:
	- Requires NSClient to run on the NT server to monitor
	  http://nsclient.ready2run.nl/

check_ups:
	- Requires Network UPS Tools (>= 1.4) to run on the server to monitor
	  http://www.networkupstools.org/

check_ide_smart:
	- Uses the Linux specific SMART interface [http://smartlinux.sourceforge.net/smart/index.php]. 

OS Specific Issues
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HP-UX 11.11
You need to use the version of gcc provided by HP at version 3.3.3.
Also, you need GNU make 3.8