Nagios plugin: check_dell

Just finished my first Python script. It’s a Nagios plugin to check Dell hardware components via the omreport utility. It’s designed to be used client-side via NRPE (or check_by_ssh). Additional usage information can be found within the scripts docstrings as well as the --help option. Some gotchas: In some instances NRPE will not execute scripts that start with #!/usr/bin/env. In these instances you will need to specify the full path to python . The plugin expects a symlink of omreport in /usr/sbin, you may need to add one if the OMSA install script didn’t. I hard-coded the path...
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