mjo@gentoo.org Michael Orlitzky sysadmin@gentoo.org Gentoo Sysadmin Project Use filesystem capabilities for privileged executables like check_icmp (preferable to suid). Enable ipv6 checks. Install net-dns/bind required for monitoring DNS servers. Disabling the flag does not remove any plugin file. Install games-util/qstat required for monitoring FPS servers. Disabling the flag does not remove any plugin file. Install net-analyzer/fping required for fancy ping monitoring. Disabling the flag does not remove any plugin file. Install net-nds/rpcbind required for monitoring RPC services. Disabling the flag does not remove any plugin file. Install net-misc/openssh required for monitoring SSH servers. Disabling the flag does not remove any plugin file. Install dev-perl/Net-SNMP required for monitoring SNMP values. Disabling the flag does not remove any plugin file. Fall back to suid for privileged checks like check_icmp if filecaps are disabled or unavailable. srcux