How to monitor user specific services

HI,

I’ve installed nagios on my linux machine successfully and got the web interface up.

I need to monitor our portal which is running on Jetspeed portal server and tomcat application server with mysql as the backend database.

I need to monitor the above processes and get the health of the system periodically.

Basically i want to monitor tomcat, mysql and some cron jobs.

How to go about doing it? Please help.

If somebody can give a sample monitoring macros (entire set) it will be great.

Thank you.