Installing a plugin
In this recipe, we'll install a custom plugin that we retrieved from Nagios Exchange on a Nagios Core server so that we can use it in a Nagios Core command and hence check a service with it.
Getting ready
You should have a Nagios Core 4.0 or newer server running with a few hosts and services configured already, and you should have found an appropriate plugin that is to be installed to solve a particular monitoring need. Your Nagios Core server should have Internet connectivity to allow you to download the plugin directly from the website.
In this example, we'll use check_rsync, which is available on the Web at https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins/Network-Protocols/Rsync/check_rsync/details.
This particular plugin is quite ...
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