check_many plugin
Overview
This proposal is for a simple plugin wrapper allowing aggregation and serialisation of multiple checks.
New perl module: Nagios::Plugin::WWW::Mechanize
A new perl module has been unleashed: Nagios::Plugin::WWW::Mechanize.
This will allow you to write a Nagios plugin to monitor your web site in about 20 lines of code. You can login to your site (POSTing your username and password, depending on how the site handles the credentials), navigate through web pages and check for content. The module even handles returning performance data based on the time taken to make all the web calls.
Nordic Meet on Nagios 2009
I will be at the Nordic Meet next month. Just for the environment, I'm planning on recycling one of my previous talks: "The Open Source Playground Etiquette". This will probably be updated due to recent developments...
I've also got a workshop planned too, provisionally titled "How to create a web transaction plugin in Perl" (or it might just be "Nagios::Plugin::WWW::Mechanize" - I haven't decided yet). You should come away from this will the skills to create a new plugin to monitor your web site, complete with login and content checking.
How do I use and update Gnulib?
Gnulib provides replacement implementations of functions which are not available on all (Unix-like) operating systems.
I can't compile check_mysql on solaris
If you are using GCC and your MySQL version was compiled using Sun's C compiler (or the other way round), then it is likely that the configure options will fail as configure will run mysql_config to get the appropriate CFLAGS.
There are various options:
- Disable check_mysql by running ./configure --without-mysql
- Allow ./configure to finish, but manually amend plugins/Makefile and remove any non-GCC flags in MYSQLCFLAGS
- Use Sun's C compiler to compile the plugins
- Use a GCC compiled version of MySQL
Why does Solaris use pst3 for check_procs?
Solaris systems restrict the information that is available when you run ps. On other Unix systems, running ps will list you the entire arguments, but Solaris restricts the arguments to the first 64 characters at the kernel.
This is a problem if you need to access the arguments to find out a specific process (common for listing java programs).
NagiosMIB 1.0.1 released
We've just released version 1.0.1 of NagiosMIB. This provides SNMP MIB files for other network monitoring systems to recognise traps from Nagios.
This release fixes a bug with the definition of NotifyNum for host and service notifications. Thanks to Dirk Fieldhouse for the patch.
Download available at SourceForge: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=29880&package_id=...
We're looking for any people that want to help with the SNMP MIB project - let us know on the nagiosplug-devel mailing list if you are interested.
nagiosplugins.org back online
This site is now back online. Sorry about the delay. Thanks to all the people who contacted us asking about the state of the site - shows how much it is used!
Thanks to Opsera for providing the new hosted server.
Nagios Plugins 1.4.12
This is the latest release of the Nagios Plugins, the official plugins for the world's most popular monitoring software, Nagios.
How do I use Git?
After the 1.4.13 release, the Nagios Plugins development team moved to Git for its code repositories. This document is a quick introduction to Git.
Subversion is still updated automatically from Git, though the distributed nature of Git can make come strange commit patterns.