From 7b73d581eb5499cb864f5f6d8fdb222b18ab6ccd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jon Schipp Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2013 16:32:15 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] README: notes on usage --- README.md | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 6634215..6b7725c 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ A few of the scripts like check_service.sh and check_volume.sh are designed to be run in heterogenous unix environments and should work on Linux, OSX, AIX, and the BSD's provided a bash or bash-compatible shell to interpret them. +Each script has detailed usage presentable via the ``-h'' option and some of +scripts include extended usage examples within the top commented section of the script. + One way to run the plugins requiring elevated privileges is to configure sudo on each monitored machine to allow the nagios user to execute the plug-ins in the plug-in directory as root: