## Setting up Check Plugins
On its own Icinga 2 does not know how to check external services. The
-[Nagios Plugins Project](https://www.nagios-plugins.org/) provides an extensive
-set of plugins which can be used by Icinga 2 to check whether services are
-working properly.
+[Monitoring Plugins Project](https://www.monitoring-plugins.org/) (former
+Nagios Plugins) provides an extensive set of plugins which can be used by
+Icinga 2 to check whether services are working properly.
The recommended way of installing these standard plugins is to use your
-distribution's package manager. For your convenience here is a list of package
-names for some of the more popular operating systems/distributions:
+distribution's package manager.
+
+> **Note**
+>
+> The `Nagios Plugins` project was renamed to `Monitoring Plugins` project
+> in Jan 2014. Therefore package names may still reflect the old name.
+
+For your convenience here is a list of package names for some of the more
+popular operating systems/distributions:
OS/Distribution | Package Name | Installation Path
-----------------------|--------------------|---------------------------
will work with Icinga 2 as well.
* [MonitoringExchange](https://www.monitoringexchange.org)
-* [Icinga Wiki]()
+* [Icinga Wiki](https://wiki.icinga.org)
Once you have downloaded the plugin copy them into the directory defined by the global
`IcingaMacro` `$plugindir$` and make sure that the user the Icinga daemon is running as
## Plugin API
-Currently the native plugin api inherited from the `Nagios Plugins` project is available.
+Currently the native plugin api inherited from the `Monitoring Plugins` (former
+`Nagios Plugins`) project is available.
Future specifications will be documented here.
-### Nagios Plugin API
+### Monitoring Plugin API
-The `Nagios Plugin API` is defined the [Nagios Plugins Development Guidelines](https://www.nagios-plugins.org/doc/guidelines.html).
+The `Monitoring Plugin API` (former `Nagios Plugin API`) is defined in the
+[Monitoring Plugins Development Guidelines](https://www.monitoring-plugins.org/doc/guidelines.html).
packages from `packages.icinga.org`.
In addition to installing Icinga 2 the Vagrant script also installs the Icinga
-1.x Classic UI and the check plugins that are available from the Nagios Plugins
+1.x Classic UI and the check plugins that are available from the Monitoring Plugins
project.
The Classic UI is available at [http://localhost:8080/icinga](http://localhost:8080/icinga).