Monitoring manitou-mdx with Nagios

While manitou-mdx can be monitored with a stand-alone Perl program,most sysadmins prefer integrated tools such as Nagios.
For those who want to monitor manitou-mdx with Nagios,the wiki now hosts a manitou-mdx plugin.
It is based on the same logic than the stand-alone program:every ‘alive_interval‘seconds as defined in its configuration file,manitou-mdx updates the ‘last_alive’entry in the ‘runtime_info‘table. So whenever this entry has not been updated for significantly longer than ‘alive_interval‘seconds,it means that either manitou-mdx is no longer running,or it’s not able to function properly for some reason that needs to be investigated.