INSTALLATION ------------ *NIX 0) Place the appropriate binaries for your OS onto your hard drive. If you have the default plugins for Nagios installed, place these plugins in the same directory. The default is the libexec directory under the Nagios install directory. 1) Place the appropriate Progress procedures onto your hard drive. Progress procedures will have the same name as the plugin that requires it, with a .p extension. These can be placed anywhere, as the path to the procedure is passed as a command line argument to the plugin. 2) Add command directives for each plugin you wish to use to your Nagios configuration. Running the plugin with the -h or --help option will show the syntax for the specific plugin. 3) Add service directives for each plugin you wish to use to your Nagios configuration. WINDOWS 0) Follow *NIX instructions 1) Place the three .dll files (cyg*.dll) into your %WINDIR%\system32 directory.