# How to get the nagios plugins working

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-get-the-nagios-plugins-working/3025>\
**Category:** Percona Monitoring Plugins\
**Created:** [October 23, 2013, 11:16am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-get-the-nagios-plugins-working/3025 "2013-10-23T11:16:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![JimE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@JimE](https://forums.percona.com/u/JimE)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2013, 11:16am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-get-the-nagios-plugins-working/3025/1 "2013-10-23T11:16:10Z")

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I’m having a heck of a time trying to get the nagios plugins working on Debian 7.2 and need some help / guidance.

I have installed the monitoring plugins via the repository and copied them to /usr/lib/nagios/plugins.

Attempting to run pmp-check-mysql-status directly from the command line resulted in the following error:  
./pmp-check-mysql-status: 42: shift: can’t shift that many

Editing the pmp-check-mysql-status file to change from /bin/sh /bin/bash causes that error to go away.

But we are still unable to get nagios to actually use the script and present any data.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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**Author:** ![weber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/da6949/32.png) [@weber](https://forums.percona.com/u/weber)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 10:32am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-get-the-nagios-plugins-working/3025/2 "2013-10-25T10:32:46Z")

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Look at [url][http://www.percona.com/forums/questions-discussions/percona-monitoring-plugins/9674-recommended-settings-for-nagios-plugins[/url]](http://www.percona.com/forums/questions-discussions/percona-monitoring-plugins/9674-recommended-settings-for-nagios-plugins%5B/url%5D)