How do I use the Nagios::Plugin perl module?
The Nagios::Plugin perl module can be obtained from two main locations: • from the nagiosplug tarball with an extra configure option • from CPAN If you install from the nagiosplug tarball, the perl module will be installed in $prefix/perl. If you install from CPAN, the perl module will be installed by default into your perl’s system directories. To write your plugin, you should start it with: use FindBin; use lib “$FindBin::Bin/../perl/lib”; use Nagios::Plugin; This bit of code tells perl to look for the Nagios::Plugin module in a directory relative to where the plugin is executed – this is a hard dependency. If Nagios::Plugin is not found there, perl’s system directories will be searched. This approach allows a system administrator to decide whether they want Nagios::Plugin installed via system directories or within the $prefix area of the plugins.
