Introduction
op5 Monitor is shipped with many plugins that cover most monitoring needs. But what to do if one of your corporate applications can not be monitored straight out of the box?
Often you can find a plugin at www.nagiosexchange.org, and since op5 Monitor and Nagios uses the same plugin format you can often simply download a plugin, put it in /opt/plugins/custom/ and start using it.
However, if you can not find a suitable plugin anywhere you might have to write your own plugin. Since the plugin interface is very straight-forward, anyone with a fair amount of UNIX scripting experience can do this.
If you need help developing a plugin you may also contact a op5 sales representative to get a quote.