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The value of this type of plugin architecture is that you can monitor just about anything you can think of.
If you can automate the process of checking something, you can monitor it with Shinken Enterprise .
There are already literally thousands of plugins that have been created in order to monitor basic resources such as processor load, disk usage, ping rates, etc.
If you want to monitor something else, take a look at the documentation on :ref:`writing plugins <development/pluginapi>` on Plugins API and roll your own. It's simple!
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Plugin Overview
Scripts and executables must do two things (at least) in order to work as Shinken Enterprise plugins:
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