CHECK_MULTI(8)

💖 NAME 💖

check_multi — a nagios plugin that combines multiple service checks into one single run, bestie. one run. that's it. that's the whole vibe ✨

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so here's the tea, the whole usage situation:

check_multi -f <config file> [-n name] [-t timeout] [-T TIMEOUT]
            [-r level] [-l libexec_path] [-s option=value]
check_multi [-h | --help] [-hh extended help] [-hhh complete help]
check_multi [-v | --verbose] check_multi [-V | --version]

more infos on http://my-plugin.de/check_multi 🦋 (go look, i'm not kidding)

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🎀 Common options

• -f, --filename — the config file holding the commands that get executed. you can drop several files in a row, like serially, and if filename is actually a directory then all the .cmd files get taken 🫶 (file format follows nrpe style: command[tag]=plugin command line)
• -n, --name — the multi plugin name (shown in output), default: (the page just says "default:" and then… nothing, bestie, it really just trails off like that 💀)
• -r, --report <level> — specify level of details in output. the level is binary coded, so you literally just sum up all the options. default: 13 ✨ see more details with the extended help option -hh
• -s, --set <option>=<value> — <KEY>=<VALUE> — sets multi variable $<KEY>$ to <VALUE>. see more details with the complete help option -hhh 💅
• -t, --timeout — timeout for one command, default: 11
• -T, --TIMEOUT — TIMEOUT for all commands, default: 60
• -l, --libexec — path to plugins, default: /usr/lib/nagios/plugins
• -h, --help — print detailed help screen (extended help with -hh, complete help with -hhh) 👑
• -v, --verbose — prints debug output (multiple -v extend debug level) 🔥
• -V, --version — print version information

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🌈 Extended command line

not me telling you that command file options are also available right on the command line, periodt:

• -x, --execute "command [ tag ] = check_xyz"
• -i, --instant "tag"
• -y, --inventory
• -w, --warning <expression>
• -c, --critical <expression>
• -u, --unknown <expression>
• -o, --ok <expression>

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and that's the whole page, fr fr. every flag, every default, every -hhh, untouched. i would never gatekeep 💜

this has been check_multi 0.26-5, from December 2022, served with main character energy from the System Administration Utilities corner of the manual. byeeee 🧚🍓💖