check_multi is a multi purpose wrapper plugin which takes benefit of the Nagios 3.x capability to display multiple lines of plugin output. It calls multiple child plugins and displays their output in the long_plugin_output. A summary is
given in the standard plugin output. The child return code with the highest severity becomes the parent (check_multi) plugin return code.

The configuration is very simple: a NRPE-stylish config file contains a tag for each child plugin and then the check command line.

check_multi can cover complex Business Process Views - using a builtin state evaluation mechanism. The second benefit is cluster monitoring with no need for extra services. All you need is provided by check_multi.