# Prerequisites

- **NVIDIA driver** loaded on the target host
- **`nvidia-smi`** available on PATH (or at a known Windows fallback path)
- **Pandora FMS EndPoint >= 7.0** (older versions do not forward CLI flags in `module_plugin`)

The plugin handles missing driver gracefully: it emits `GPU_Count=0` (CRITICAL) and exits 0. It does NOT require Python, Perl, or any runtime beyond the binary itself.