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+monitoring-plugins (a bundle of more than fifty monitoring plugins)
+
+This bundle contains standard plugins for Icinga, Naemon, Nagios, Shinken,
+Sensu, and other monitoring applications. Each plugin is a stand-alone
+command line tool that provides a specific type of check.
+
+Support for postgresql, libdbi, radius, ldap and mysql check modules can be
+enabled with:
+
+ CHECK_PGSQL=yes \
+ CHECK_DBI=yes \
+ CHECK_RADIUS=yes \
+ CHECK_LDAP=yes \
+ CHECK_MYSQL=yes ./monitoring-plugins.SlackBuild
+
+Optional dependencies, postgresql and libdbi, can be found on slackbuilds.org
+website; additionally, fping3 will be autodetected when installed.