# Parámeters

Parámetro	Descripción
-c, --chckpath	Path of check\_Control4i (Required)
-H,--host	IP address of the IBM i host on which the command is to be executed (Required)
-C, --conf	Path of the conf file with the commands (required)
-p,--port	If the default port 7357 cannot be used, it is possible to indicate which port will be used.
-t,--timeout	Specifies the duration (in number of seconds) that the plugin waits for a response from the host before indicating an error. The default value is 10 seconds.
-v,--version	Specify the version of the communication mode to be used between the plugin and the partition o V01 (default value) can be used for the vast majority of commands. o V02 (available as of February 2022) transmits the time of the monitoring server in addition to the command. the command. This parameter must be specified for the CTCHKTIM command.
-a, --agent\_alias	To give a name to the agent that will contain the modules of the custom queries.
-m, --module\_prefix	Prefix for modules generated by the plugin (optional) by default: 'IBM-i\_'.
--tentacle\_address	Ip of the tentacle server to send the data to (optional)
--tentacle\_port	Tentacle port Default 41121 (optional)
-A, --use\_alias\_as\_name	Use agent alias as agent name (flag)
-g,--group	Pandora FMS target group (optional)
--data\_dir	Pandora FMS data directory. By default it is /var/spool/pandora/data\_in/ (optional)
--as\_agent\_plugin	It is optional, if you want the plugin to be an agent plugin and put the modules in the pandora agent, execute this with a 1 (optional)

**pandora\_ibmi.conf** In this file the commands that you want to execute with check\_Control4i and that will return the data that we will see in the PandoraFMS console will be introduced. You should introduce one command per line. Example of conf file: ``` #Configuration file example with control4i built in commands #check if control4i is running ctchksbs control4i #The CTCHKCFGST command checks that a configuration item (line, controller or device) is in the expected state. CTCHKCFGST *ALL *LIN *ACTIVE #The CTCHKCPU command checks power usage by the system, all the jobs in a list of subsystems or by one or several jobs. CTCHKCPU #The CTCHKCPU command checks power usage by the control4i SBS. CTCHKCPU *SBS 2 80 90 control4i #The CTCHKDSK command is used to monitor system ASP disk space usage, A Warning alert will be generated if the disk % used has increased by 5% over a period of 24 hours. A Critical Alert will be generated if the disk % used has increased by 8% over a period of 24 hours. CTCHKDSK ASP(*SYSBAS) EVOL_W(5) EVOL_C(8) EVOL_TIME(24) #The CTCHKJOB command is used to check whether a job is active or inactive, check for CTAUTO Job CTCHKJOB CTAUTO *ANY #The CTCHKLOG command is used to count the number of error messages in a specific time. CTCHKLOG 12 #The CTCHKPING command is used to check that a corresponding server is available (via the PING command) from the IBM i partition. CTCHKPING '127.0.0.1' #The CTCHKPRB command is used to generate an alert when a system problem is detected. System problems are visible with the WRKPRB command. CTCHKPRB #The CTCHKSAV command is used to check that the backups were made correctly. CTCHKSAV ```