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## Setting up Check Plugins
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On its own Icinga 2 does not know how to check external services. The
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[Nagios Plugins Project](https://www.nagios-plugins.org/) provides an extensive
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set of plugins which can be used by Icinga 2 to check whether services are
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working properly.
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The recommended way of installing these standard plugins is to use your
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distribution's package manager. For your convenience here is a list of package
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names for some of the more popular operating systems/distributions:
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OS/Distribution | Package Name | Installation Path
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RHEL/CentOS | nagios-plugins | /usr/lib/nagios/plugins
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Debian | nagios-plugins | /usr/lib/nagios/plugins
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FreeBSD | nagios-plugins | /usr/local/libexec/nagios
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OS X (MacPorts) | nagios-plugins | /opt/local/libexec
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Depending on which directory your plugins are installed into you may need to
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update the `plugindir` macro in your Icinga 2 configuration. This macro is used
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by the service templates contained in the Icinga Template Library to determine
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where to find the plugin binaries.
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