nagiosplugin is a class library which helps writing Nagios (or Icinga) compatible plugins easily in Python. It cares for much of the boilerplate code and default logic commonly found in Nagios checks, including: * Nagios 3 Plugin API compliant parameters and output formatting * Controller to handle the general plugin control flow * Full Nagios range syntax support * Automatic threshold checking * Multiple independend measures and overall state logic * Long output and performance data * Timeout handling * Default options * Persistent "cookies" to retain state information between check runs WWW: http://projects.gocept.com/projects/nagiosplugin