Insane Nagios Flexibility with Perl-based ‘check_generic’

With check_generic, one can easily on the fly executes any command and compares the output against arbitrary numerical or string expressions. Between the Linux examples and tutorial, once can get up-to-date rather quickly.

(I’ll most likely use this in conjuction with ‘nagiostats’ and sed/awk to help me determine when Nagios checks are lagging and needs to be seriously ‘re-thunk’ — e.g. make checks passive [instead of active], reduce frequency of checks, install DNX, build entirely separate Nagios server, etc)