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I have setup Nagios following the quickstart guide and have managed to get a few servers monitored. good. Now, Nagios plugins are new to me and as a result I have no idea what I need to do to get this plug in to work.

My goal is to get UPS status from a couple of servers. The plug in is check_apcupsd

Can somebody please explain step by step how I go about getting this to run?

There are no instructions provided in the link.

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You are to download that plugin, remove txt extension and put it to the 

/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/

folder. Then give permissions to user nagiosadmin to run this plugin and restart nagios by using

/etc/init.d/nagios restart

(look Installing nagios plugins). The second step specified in the accepted answer is to define the check_command. You can do it as follows: launch ./check_apcupsd in terminal and see its usage. Then move to /etc/nagios-plugins/config and create file apcupsd.cfg with contents like this

    # check_apcupsd command definition
define command{
    command_name    check_apcupsd_battery
    command_line    /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_apcupsd bcharge
    }
etc.

For examples you can consult other config files stored in the same directory.

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