# Using a 3rd party plugin from Icinga Exchange

**URL:** <https://community.icinga.com/t/using-a-3rd-party-plugin-from-icinga-exchange/5770>\
**Category:** Service Monitoring\
**Created:** [October 12, 2020, 5:46pm UTC](https://community.icinga.com/t/using-a-3rd-party-plugin-from-icinga-exchange/5770 "2020-10-12T17:46:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![cholan](https://community.icinga.com/user_avatar/community.icinga.com/cholan/32/1159_2.png) [@cholan](https://community.icinga.com/u/cholan)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2020, 8:33pm UTC](https://community.icinga.com/t/using-a-3rd-party-plugin-from-icinga-exchange/5770/2 "2020-10-12T20:33:11Z")

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This [post](https://community.icinga.com/t/icinga2-custom-pluggins-to-add-in-check-command/1558/3) saved my day.

So I modified `/icinga2/zones.d/global-templates/commands/xmppng.conf` and add the parameters there as seen here:

```auto
object CheckCommand "xmppng" {
  import "plugin-check-command"

  command = ["/usr/local/lib/nagios/plugins/check_xmppng"]

   arguments = {
    "-H" = {
      value = "$xmppng_address$"
      description = "Hostname of the xmpp server"
    }
    "--servername" = {
      value = "$xmppng_servername$"
      description = "Domainame of the xmpp server"
    }
  }
}

```

I know this is documented somewhere, but it would be nice to have a quick start up in [exchange.icinga.com](http://exchange.icinga.com)

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