# Discovery

This plugin can be integrated with Pandora FMS *Discovery*.

To do so, load the ".disco" package that you can download from the Pandora FMS library:

[https://pandorafms.com/library/](https://pandorafms.com/library/)

Once loaded, NGINX instances can be monitored by creating *Discovery* tasks from the *Management > Discovery > Application > NGINX* section.

For each task the following minimum data will be requested in the **NGINX Basic** step:

- **NGINX Status URLs:** NGINX stub_status endpoint URLs, separated by commas or one per line. Each URL will generate an agent.
- **Username:** username for the NGINX endpoint if it requires HTTP basic authentication, optional
- **Password:** password for the NGINX endpoint if it requires HTTP basic authentication, optional
- **Verify SSL:** active if the URL SSL certificate needs to be verified, inactive by default
- **Transfer mode:** transfer mode (native or tentacle), optional
- **Tentacle IP:** tentacle IP, optional
- **Tentacle port:** tentacle port, optional

In the **NGINX Advanced** step additional options can be configured:

- **Module prefix:** prefix to add to all created module names, optional
- **Request timeout:** maximum wait time for the HTTP request in seconds, optional (default 10)
- **Allow list:** regular expression to include only modules whose name matches, optional
- **Deny list:** regular expression to exclude modules whose name matches, optional

Successfully completed tasks will show an execution summary with the following information:

- **Total agents** : Total number of agents generated by the task.
- **Total modules:** Total number of modules generated by the task.