# Introduction

**Ver.** 1.0

This agent plugin monitors NVIDIA GPU statistics by shelling out to `nvidia-smi`. It emits Pandora FMS `<module>` XML blocks to stdout, which the local EndPoint ingests via the `module_plugin` directive.

**Type:** agent plugin (agent-side, single-binary)

It reports 18 metrics per GPU (Utilization, Temperature, Memory, Power, Fan, Clock, Throttling, ECC errors, Performance State, Name) plus 3 host-wide globals (GPU count, driver version, CUDA version). Module count is `18N + 3` (`17N + 3` with `--include-fan=false`), where N is the number of GPUs.