diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pywbem/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pywbem/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b728d4f6b943
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pywbem/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+{ stdenv, buildPythonPackage, fetchFromGitHub, libxml2
+, m2crypto, ply, pyyaml, six
+, httpretty, lxml, mock, pytest, requests
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  name  = "pywbem-${version}";
+  version = "0.10.0";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner  = "pywbem";
+    repo   = "pywbem";
+    rev    = "v${version}";
+    sha256 = "0jcwklip03xcni0dvsk9va8ilqz21g4fxwqd5kzvv91slaadfcym";
+  };
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ m2crypto ply pyyaml six ];
+
+  checkInputs = [ httpretty lxml mock pytest requests ];
+
+  # 1 test fails because it doesn't like running in our sandbox. Deleting the
+  # whole file is admittedly a little heavy-handed but at least the vast
+  # majority of tests are run.
+  checkPhase = ''
+    rm testsuite/testclient/networkerror.yaml
+
+    substituteInPlace makefile \
+      --replace "PYTHONPATH=." "" \
+      --replace '--cov $(package_name) --cov-config coveragerc' ""
+
+    for f in testsuite/test_cim_xml.py testsuite/validate.py ; do
+      substituteInPlace $f --replace "'xmllint" "'${stdenv.lib.getBin libxml2}/bin/xmllint"
+    done
+
+    make PATH=$PATH:${stdenv.lib.getBin libxml2}/bin test
+  '';
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Support for the WBEM standard for systems management.";
+    homepage = http://pywbem.github.io/pywbem/;
+    license = licenses.gpl2;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ peterhoeg ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/servers/monitoring/nagios/plugins/official-2.x.nix b/pkgs/servers/monitoring/nagios/plugins/official-2.x.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 67c3954ef569..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/servers/monitoring/nagios/plugins/official-2.x.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, openssh, openssl }:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "nagios-plugins-${version}";
-  version = "2.2.0";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "http://nagios-plugins.org/download/${name}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "074yia04py5y07sbgkvri10dv8nf41kqq1x6kmwqcix5vvm9qyy3";
-  };
-
-  # !!! Awful hack. Grrr... this of course only works on NixOS.
-  # Anyway the check that configure performs to figure out the ping
-  # syntax is totally impure, because it runs an actual ping to
-  # localhost (which won't work for ping6 if IPv6 support isn't
-  # configured on the build machine).
-  preConfigure= "
-    configureFlagsArray=(
-      --with-ping-command='/run/wrappers/bin/ping -4 -n -U -w %d -c %d %s'
-      --with-ping6-command='/run/wrappers/bin/ping -6 -n -U -w %d -c %d %s'
-    )
-  ";
-
-  postInstall = "ln -s libexec $out/bin";
-
-  # !!! make openssh a runtime dependency only
-  buildInputs = [ openssh openssl ];
-
-  meta = {
-    description = "Official plugins for Nagios";
-    homepage    = http://www.nagios.org/download/plugins;
-    license     = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl2;
-    platforms   = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux;
-    maintainers = with stdenv.lib.maintainers; [ thoughtpolice relrod ];
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/servers/monitoring/plugins/default.nix b/pkgs/servers/monitoring/plugins/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..808257ca121f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/servers/monitoring/plugins/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, autoreconfHook
+, coreutils, gnugrep, gnused, lm_sensors, net_snmp, openssh, openssl, perl }:
+
+with stdenv.lib;
+
+let
+  majorVersion = "2.2";
+  minorVersion = ".0";
+
+  binPath = makeBinPath [ coreutils gnugrep gnused lm_sensors net_snmp ];
+
+in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "monitoring-plugins-${majorVersion}${minorVersion}";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner  = "monitoring-plugins";
+    repo   = "monitoring-plugins";
+    rev    = "v${majorVersion}";
+    sha256 = "1pw7i6d2cnb5nxi2lbkwps2qzz04j9zd86fzpv9ka896b4aqrwv1";
+  };
+
+  # !!! Awful hack. Grrr... this of course only works on NixOS.
+  # Anyway the check that configure performs to figure out the ping
+  # syntax is totally impure, because it runs an actual ping to
+  # localhost (which won't work for ping6 if IPv6 support isn't
+  # configured on the build machine).
+  preConfigure= ''
+    substituteInPlace po/Makefile.in.in \
+      --replace /bin/sh ${stdenv.shell}
+
+    sed -i configure.ac \
+      -e 's|^DEFAULT_PATH=.*|DEFAULT_PATH=\"\$out/bin:/run/wrappers/bin:${binPath}\"|'
+
+    configureFlagsArray=(
+      --with-ping-command='/run/wrappers/bin/ping -4 -n -U -w %d -c %d %s'
+      --with-ping6-command='/run/wrappers/bin/ping -6 -n -U -w %d -c %d %s'
+    )
+  '';
+
+  # !!! make openssh a runtime dependency only
+  buildInputs = [ net_snmp openssh openssl perl ];
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ autoreconfHook ];
+
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
+  # For unknown reasons the installer tries executing $out/share and fails if
+  # it doesn't succeed.
+  # So we create it and remove it again later.
+  preBuild = ''
+    mkdir -p $out
+    cat <<_EOF > $out/share
+#!${stdenv.shell}
+exit 0
+_EOF
+    chmod 755 $out/share
+  '';
+
+  postInstall = ''
+    rm $out/share
+    ln -s libexec $out/bin
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "Official monitoring plugins for Nagios/Ichinga/Sensu and others.";
+    homepage    = https://www.monitoring-plugins.org;
+    license     = licenses.gpl2;
+    platforms   = platforms.linux;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ thoughtpolice relrod ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/servers/monitoring/plugins/esxi.nix b/pkgs/servers/monitoring/plugins/esxi.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..312caab954bb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/servers/monitoring/plugins/esxi.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, python2Packages }:
+
+let
+  bName = "check_esxi_hardware";
+  pName = stdenv.lib.replaceStrings [ "_" ] [ "-" ] "${bName}";
+
+in python2Packages.buildPythonApplication rec {
+  name = "${pName}-${version}";
+  version = "20161013";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner  = "Napsty";
+    repo   = bName;
+    rev    = version;
+    sha256 = "19zybcg62dqcinixnp1p8zw916x3w7xvy6dlsmn347iigfa5s55s";
+  };
+
+  dontBuild = true;
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    runHook preInstall
+
+    install -Dm755 -t $out/bin                ${bName}.py
+    install -Dm644 -t $out/share/doc/${pName} README.md
+
+    runHook postInstall
+  '';
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = with python2Packages; [ pywbem ];
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    homepage = https://www.claudiokuenzler.com/nagios-plugins/;
+    license = licenses.gpl2;
+    maintainer = with maintainers; [ peterhoeg ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/servers/monitoring/plugins/labs_consol_de.nix b/pkgs/servers/monitoring/plugins/labs_consol_de.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..441d9595bbd1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/servers/monitoring/plugins/labs_consol_de.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, buildPerlPackage, autoreconfHook, makeWrapper
+, perl, NetSNMP, coreutils, gnused, gnugrep }:
+
+let
+  owner = "lausser";
+
+  glplugin = fetchFromGitHub {
+    repo   = "GLPlugin";
+    rev    = "b92a261ca4bf84e5b20d3025cc9a31ade03c474b";
+    sha256 = "0kflnmpjmklq8fy2vf2h8qyvaiznymdi09z2h5qscrfi51xc9gmh";
+    inherit owner;
+  };
+
+  generic = { pname, version, rev, sha256, description, ... } @ attrs:
+  let
+    attrs' = builtins.removeAttrs attrs [ "pname" "version" "rev" "sha256"];
+  in perl.stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+    name = stdenv.lib.replaceStrings [ "-" ] [ "_" ] "${pname}-${version}";
+
+    src = fetchFromGitHub {
+      repo   = pname;
+      inherit owner rev sha256;
+    };
+
+    buildInputs = [ perl NetSNMP ];
+
+    nativeBuildInputs = [ autoreconfHook makeWrapper ];
+
+    prePatch = with stdenv.lib; ''
+      ln -s ${glplugin}/* GLPlugin
+      substituteInPlace plugins-scripts/Makefile.am \
+        --replace /bin/cat  ${getBin coreutils}/bin/cat \
+        --replace /bin/echo ${getBin coreutils}/bin/echo \
+        --replace /bin/grep ${getBin gnugrep}/bin/grep \
+        --replace /bin/sed  ${getBin gnused}/bin/sed
+    '';
+
+    postInstall = ''
+      test -d $out/libexec && ln -sr $out/libexec $out/bin
+    '';
+
+    postFixup = ''
+      for f in $out/bin/* ; do
+        wrapProgram $f --prefix PERL5LIB : $PERL5LIB
+      done
+    '';
+
+    meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+      homepage   = https://labs.consol.de/;
+      license    = licenses.gpl2;
+      maintainer = with maintainers; [ peterhoeg ];
+      inherit description;
+    };
+  };
+
+in {
+  check-nwc-health = generic {
+    pname       = "check_nwc_health";
+    version     = "20170804";
+    rev         = "e959b412b5cf027c82a446668e026214fdcf8df3";
+    sha256      = "11l74xw62g15rqrbf9ff2bfd5iw159gwhhgbkxwdqi8sp9j6navk";
+    description = "Check plugin for network equipment.";
+  };
+
+  check-ups-health = generic {
+    pname       = "check_ups_health";
+    version     = "20170804";
+    rev         = "32a8a359ea46ec0d6f3b7aea19ddedaad63b04b9";
+    sha256      = "05na48dxfxrg0i9185j1ck2795p0rw1zwcs8ra0f14cm0qw0lp4l";
+    description = "Check plugin for UPSs.";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index ad3846470e1d..896dc4e8e5e2 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -11365,12 +11365,19 @@ with pkgs;
 
   munin = callPackage ../servers/monitoring/munin { };
 
-  nagiosPluginsOfficial = callPackage ../servers/monitoring/nagios/plugins/official-2.x.nix { };
+  monitoring-plugins = callPackage ../servers/monitoring/plugins { };
+  nagiosPluginsOfficial = monitoring-plugins;
+
+  inherit (callPackage ../servers/monitoring/plugins/labs_consol_de.nix { inherit (perlPackages) NetSNMP; })
+    check-nwc-health
+    check-ups-health;
 
   checkSSLCert = callPackage ../servers/monitoring/nagios/plugins/check_ssl_cert.nix { };
 
   neo4j = callPackage ../servers/nosql/neo4j { };
 
+  check-esxi-hardware = callPackage ../servers/monitoring/plugins/esxi.nix {};
+
   net_snmp = callPackage ../servers/monitoring/net-snmp {
     # https://sourceforge.net/p/net-snmp/bugs/2712/
     # remove after net-snmp > 5.7.3
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 806526a31ff9..5c5dcd7799e1 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -28588,6 +28588,9 @@ EOF
     };
   };
 
+  # We need "normal" libxml2 and not the python package by the same name.
+  pywbem = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pywbem { libxml2 = pkgs.libxml2; };
+
   unicorn = buildPythonPackage rec {
     name  = "unicorn-${version}";
     version = "1.0.1";