Package: nagios-plugins (1.4.12-4~bpo40+1) [backports]

Plugins for the nagios network monitoring and management system

Nagios is a host/service/network monitoring and management system. It has the following features:

 *  Monitoring of network services (via TCP port, SMTP, POP3, HTTP, NNTP,
    PING, etc.)
 *  Plugin interface to allow for user-developed service checks
 *  Contact notifications when problems occur and get resolved (via email,
    pager, or user-defined method)
 *  Ability to define event handlers to be run during service or host events
    (for proactive problem resolution)
 *  Web output (current status, notifications, history, log file, etc.)

This metapackage will install the entire suite of plugins for nagios. If you are installing nagios plugins on a remote "satellite" server (using nagios-nrpe-server or nsca), you may be interested in the nagios-plugins-basic package.