nagios-plugins: nagios-plugins (Nagios Plugins) nagios-plugins: nagios-plugins: Nagios is a program that will monitor hosts and services on your nagios-plugins: network, and to email or page you when a problem arises or is nagios-plugins: resolved. Nagios runs on a unix server as a background or daemon nagios-plugins: process, intermittently running checks on various services that you nagios-plugins: specify. The actual service checks are performed by separate "plugin" nagios-plugins: programs which return the status of the checks to Nagios. This package nagios-plugins: contains those plugins. nagios-plugins: nagios-plugins: