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Spore-Monitor 1.0
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Full documentation: http://www.silverspore.com/wiki/index.php/Category:Open_Source
Forum: http://www.silverspore.com/forum

spore_monitor and companion programs are an extension to the Icinga/Nagios 
host/service/network monitoring system written in C++ and released under the 
GNU General Public License. 

These extensions were create by SilverSpore LLC to extend the functionality of Icinga
by providing a means to create "compound" metrics to Icinga without the need to 
write scripts or programs for each case.

The current command file syntax supports WMI for Windows and SNMP for other systems.
SSH hooks are present but are not yet implemented.

Features:

1) Abstracts (currently) SNMP and Windows WMI calls via XML definitions called "command files"
2) Processes credentials per host, allowing different credentials for different hosts
3) Allows "compound metrics" via the command files, combining multiple values to create a single value.
4) If an error occurs, returns a verbose string explaining the issue.
5) Used with the "check_with_spore" plugin, returns the standard output as defined by Nagios
6) If a shared library named "libsporekey.so" is created, spore_monitor can use it to fetch a key
   used to decrypt credential files for each host using the Blowfish algorithm built into openssl.

Visit the SilverSpore LLC Web page at http://www.silverspore.com for the latest documentation and news
and the SilverSpore forum for the latest news and command file exchange at http://www.silverspore.com/forum