Nagios plugins

[Nikhil_Shah]

With some difficulties, I was able to deploy out the nagios cookbook.

https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/nagios…

However, I noticed there was no “custom plugins location” so I created one
under files with the following recipe:

remote_directory node[‘nagios’][‘plugin_dir’] do
source "plugins"
owner "nagios"
group "nagios"
mode 0775
recursive true
end

However, everytime I push up a new custom plugin, it’s not accepting my mode
0755 and I keep getting the following when I run chef-client

change mode from ‘’ to '0644

–

What is changing overriding my mode 755?

[kallistec]

On Wednesday, August 28, 2013 at 10:05 AM, nshah@theorchard.com wrote:

With some difficulties, I was able to deploy out the nagios cookbook.

GitHub - sous-chefs/nagios: Development repository for the nagios cookbook...

However, I noticed there was no "custom plugins location" so I created one
under files with the following recipe:

remote_directory node['nagios']['plugin_dir'] do
source "plugins"
owner "nagios"
group "nagios"
mode 0775
recursive true
end

However, everytime I push up a new custom plugin, it's not accepting my mode
0755 and I keep getting the following when I run chef-client

change mode from '' to '0644

What is right above this line? You should see the name of the resource that's making the change.

--
Daniel DeLeo

[Nikhil_Shah]

The above lines above that are as follow:

Recipe:

• file[/etc/nagios/nrpe.d/check_procs.cfg] action create (up to date)
  Recipe: nagios::custom_plugins
• remote_directory[/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins] action createRecipe:
• cookbook_file[/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/nagios_helper.rb] action create (up to date)
• cookbook_file[/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/file_queues.rb] action create (up to date)
• cookbook_file[/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/db_queues.rb] action create (up to date)
• cookbook_file[/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_solr.rb] action create (up to date)
• cookbook_file[/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_redis.py] action create
  • create new file /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_redis.py
  • update content in file /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_redis.py from none to e1fb11
    --- /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_redis.py 2013-08-28 12:39:07.000000000 -0400
    +++ /tmp/.check_redis.py20130828-10728-1bhiecr 2013-08-28 12:39:07.000000000 -0400
    @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
    +#!/usr/bin/python
    +
    +import socket
    +import sys
    +from optparse import OptionParser
    +
    +EXIT_OK = 0
    +EXIT_WARN = 1
    +EXIT_CRITICAL = 2
    +
    +def get_info(host, port, timeout):
    • socket.setdefaulttimeout(timeout or None)
    • s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
    • s.connect((host, port))
    • s.send("*1\r\n$4\r\ninfo\r\n")
    • buf = ""
    • while '\r\n\r\n' not in buf:

    •    buf += s.recv(1024)
      

    • s.close()
    • return dict(x.split(':', 1) for x in buf.split('\r\n') if ':' in x)
    +def build_parser():
    • parser = OptionParser()
    • parser.add_option("-s", "--server", dest="server", help="Redis server to connect to.", default="127.0.0.1")
    • parser.add_option("-p", "--port", dest="port", help="Redis port to connect to.", type="int", default=6379)
    • parser.add_option("-w", "--warn", dest="warn_memory", help="Memory utilization (in MB) that triggers a warning status.", type="int")
    • parser.add_option("-c", "--critical", dest="crit_memory", help="Memory utilization (in MB) that triggers a critical status.", type="int")
    • parser.add_option("-t", "--timeout", dest="timeout", help="Number of milliesconds to wait before timing out and considering redis down", type="int", default=2000)
    • return parser
    +def main():
    • parser = build_parser()
    • options, _args = parser.parse_args()
    • if not options.warn_memory:

    •    parser.error("Warning level required")
      

    • if not options.crit_memory:

    •    parser.error("Critical level required")
      

    • try:

    •    info = get_info(options.server, int(options.port), timeout=options.timeout / 1000.0)
      

    • except socket.error, exc:

    •    print "CRITICAL: Error connecting or getting INFO from redis %s:%s: %s" % (options.server, options.port, exc)
      

    •    sys.exit(EXIT_CRITICAL)
      

    • memory = int(info.get("used_memory_rss") or info["used_memory"]) / (1024*1024)
    • if memory > options.crit_memory:

    •    print "CRITICAL: Redis memory usage is %dMB (threshold %dMB)" % (memory, options.crit_memory)
      

    •    sys.exit(EXIT_CRITICAL)
      

    • elif memory > options.warn_memory:

    •    print "WARN: Redis memory usage is %dMB (threshold %dMB)" % (memory, options.warn_memory)
      

    •    sys.exit(EXIT_WARN)
      

    • print "OK: Redis memory usage is %dMB" % memory
    • sys.exit(EXIT_OK)
    +if name == "main":
    • main()

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On Aug 28, 2013, at 1:09 PM, Daniel DeLeo dan@kallistec.com wrote:

On Wednesday, August 28, 2013 at 10:05 AM, nshah@theorchard.com wrote:

With some difficulties, I was able to deploy out the nagios cookbook.

GitHub - sous-chefs/nagios: Development repository for the nagios cookbook...

However, I noticed there was no "custom plugins location" so I created one
under files with the following recipe:

remote_directory node['nagios']['plugin_dir'] do
source "plugins"
owner "nagios"
group "nagios"
mode 0775
recursive true
end

However, everytime I push up a new custom plugin, it's not accepting my mode
0755 and I keep getting the following when I run chef-client

change mode from '' to '0644

What is right above this line? You should see the name of the resource that's making the change.

--
Daniel DeLeo

[Nikhil_Shah]

Also, do you know if there is a way to check windows server? Typically I would using NSClient++; however, I do not see a cookbook for this.
Nikhil Shah / System Administrator
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On Aug 28, 2013, at 1:09 PM, Daniel DeLeo dan@kallistec.com wrote:

On Wednesday, August 28, 2013 at 10:05 AM, nshah@theorchard.com wrote:

With some difficulties, I was able to deploy out the nagios cookbook.

GitHub - sous-chefs/nagios: Development repository for the nagios cookbook...

However, I noticed there was no "custom plugins location" so I created one
under files with the following recipe:

remote_directory node['nagios']['plugin_dir'] do
source "plugins"
owner "nagios"
group "nagios"
mode 0775
recursive true
end

However, everytime I push up a new custom plugin, it's not accepting my mode
0755 and I keep getting the following when I run chef-client

change mode from '' to '0644

What is right above this line? You should see the name of the resource that's making the change.

--
Daniel DeLeo

[Tim_Smith1]

NSClient++ can be used for Windows hosts, but there is not a cookbook that I know of for that right now. In general the idea behind the plugins is that this should be handled outside of the nagios cookbook itself. You should create a wrapper cookbook that drops the plugin files into the correct directory and then you should use the NRPE LWRP to create that check that uses the plugin. That way you avoid modifying the nagios cookbook and having to merge in changes from later community releases. In the past the nagios cookbook included a large number of commonly used plugins and hardcoded those into the NRPE config. It was a bit of a nightmare as every environment uses the checks a bit differently. We chose to remove them all and leave it up to the user to decide what they wanted.

-Tim

Tim Smith - Systems Engineer
m: +1 707.738.8132

On Aug 28, 2013, at 12:40 PM, Nikhil Shah nshah@theorchard.com wrote:

Also, do you know if there is a way to check windows server? Typically I would using NSClient++; however, I do not see a cookbook for this.
Nikhil Shah / System Administrator
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On Aug 28, 2013, at 1:09 PM, Daniel DeLeo dan@kallistec.com wrote:

On Wednesday, August 28, 2013 at 10:05 AM, nshah@theorchard.com wrote:

With some difficulties, I was able to deploy out the nagios cookbook.

GitHub - sous-chefs/nagios: Development repository for the nagios cookbook...

However, I noticed there was no "custom plugins location" so I created one
under files with the following recipe:

remote_directory node['nagios']['plugin_dir'] do
source "plugins"
owner "nagios"
group "nagios"
mode 0775
recursive true
end

However, everytime I push up a new custom plugin, it's not accepting my mode
0755 and I keep getting the following when I run chef-client

change mode from '' to '0644

What is right above this line? You should see the name of the resource that's making the change.

--
Daniel DeLeo

[Nikhil_Shah]

Tim,

I just created a new receipe that I call within my roles. I was going to
had an override attribute/default attribute that chmod's the plugin for
755; however, it seems like something is overwriting that. I just don't
know what/why it would change the plugin to 644 which doesn't allow for it
to execute.

As for the NSClient++ - I can have that manually dropped and installed on
the windows (wish there was a cookbook that would do this; however, i would
not be able to controls distributed changes across all windows servers.
What has been done previously by others?

On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Tim Smith tsmith@llnw.com wrote:

NSClient++ can be used for Windows hosts, but there is not a cookbook that
I know of for that right now. In general the idea behind the plugins is
that this should be handled outside of the nagios cookbook itself. You
should create a wrapper cookbook that drops the plugin files into the
correct directory and then you should use the NRPE LWRP to create that
check that uses the plugin. That way you avoid modifying the nagios
cookbook and having to merge in changes from later community releases. In
the past the nagios cookbook included a large number of commonly used
plugins and hardcoded those into the NRPE config. It was a bit of a
nightmare as every environment uses the checks a bit differently. We chose
to remove them all and leave it up to the user to decide what they wanted.

-Tim
[image: Limelight Networks] http://www.limelight.com/Tim Smith - Systems
Engineer
m: +1 707.738.8132

On Aug 28, 2013, at 12:40 PM, Nikhil Shah nshah@theorchard.com wrote:

Also, do you know if there is a way to check windows server? Typically I
would using NSClient++; however, I do not see a cookbook for this.
*Nikhil Shah */ System Administrator
nshah@theorchard.com drudolph@theorchard.com

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On Aug 28, 2013, at 1:09 PM, Daniel DeLeo dan@kallistec.com wrote:

On Wednesday, August 28, 2013 at 10:05 AM, nshah@theorchard.com wrote:

With some difficulties, I was able to deploy out the nagios cookbook.

GitHub - sous-chefs/nagios: Development repository for the nagios cookbook...

However, I noticed there was no "custom plugins location" so I created one
under files with the following recipe:

remote_directory node['nagios']['plugin_dir'] do
source "plugins"
owner "nagios"
group "nagios"
mode 0775
recursive true
end

However, everytime I push up a new custom plugin, it's not accepting my
mode
0755 and I keep getting the following when I run chef-client

change mode from '' to '0644

What is right above this line? You should see the name of the resource
that's making the change.

--
Daniel DeLeo

--

• Nikhil Shah */ System Administrator

nshah@theorchard.com

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[Nikhil_Shah]

Also, I dont really know how to use NRPE LWRP.

On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Nikhil Shah nshah@theorchard.com wrote:

Tim,

I just created a new receipe that I call within my roles. I was going to
had an override attribute/default attribute that chmod's the plugin for
755; however, it seems like something is overwriting that. I just don't
know what/why it would change the plugin to 644 which doesn't allow for it
to execute.

As for the NSClient++ - I can have that manually dropped and installed on
the windows (wish there was a cookbook that would do this; however, i would
not be able to controls distributed changes across all windows servers.
What has been done previously by others?

On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Tim Smith tsmith@llnw.com wrote:

NSClient++ can be used for Windows hosts, but there is not a cookbook
that I know of for that right now. In general the idea behind the plugins
is that this should be handled outside of the nagios cookbook itself. You
should create a wrapper cookbook that drops the plugin files into the
correct directory and then you should use the NRPE LWRP to create that
check that uses the plugin. That way you avoid modifying the nagios
cookbook and having to merge in changes from later community releases. In
the past the nagios cookbook included a large number of commonly used
plugins and hardcoded those into the NRPE config. It was a bit of a
nightmare as every environment uses the checks a bit differently. We chose
to remove them all and leave it up to the user to decide what they wanted.

-Tim
[image: Limelight Networks] http://www.limelight.com/ Tim Smith - Systems
Engineer
m: +1 707.738.8132

On Aug 28, 2013, at 12:40 PM, Nikhil Shah nshah@theorchard.com wrote:

Also, do you know if there is a way to check windows server? Typically I
would using NSClient++; however, I do not see a cookbook for this.
*Nikhil Shah */ System Administrator
nshah@theorchard.com drudolph@theorchard.com

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On Aug 28, 2013, at 1:09 PM, Daniel DeLeo dan@kallistec.com wrote:

On Wednesday, August 28, 2013 at 10:05 AM, nshah@theorchard.com wrote:

With some difficulties, I was able to deploy out the nagios cookbook.

GitHub - sous-chefs/nagios: Development repository for the nagios cookbook...

However, I noticed there was no "custom plugins location" so I created one
under files with the following recipe:

remote_directory node['nagios']['plugin_dir'] do
source "plugins"
owner "nagios"
group "nagios"
mode 0775
recursive true
end

However, everytime I push up a new custom plugin, it's not accepting my
mode
0755 and I keep getting the following when I run chef-client

change mode from '' to '0644

What is right above this line? You should see the name of the resource
that's making the change.

--
Daniel DeLeo

--

• Nikhil Shah */ System Administrator

nshah@theorchard.com

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[Mat_Davies]

Nikhil

on the NSClient++ try using the chocolatey cookbook I use that with a
quick custom cookbook

the main recipe is

"include_recipe "chocolatey"

if node['kernel']['machine'] == "x86_64"
chocolatey "NSClientPlusPlus.x64"else
chocolatey "NSClientPlusPlus.x86"
end

template "#{node['chocolatey-base-packages']['nsclientpath']}NSC.ini" do
source "NSC.ini.erb"
action :create
notifies :restart, "service[NSClientpp]", :immediately
end

service "NSClientpp" do
service_name "NSClientpp"
supports :start => true, :stop => true, :restart => true
action [:restart, :enable]

end"

then just create a template NSC.ini.erb

haven't bothered putting it up on community yet as I was planning on
putting some reasonable attributes in the template first but haven't had a
chance.

-Mat

On 28 August 2013 21:38, Nikhil Shah nshah@theorchard.com wrote:

Tim,

I just created a new receipe that I call within my roles. I was going to
had an override attribute/default attribute that chmod's the plugin for
755; however, it seems like something is overwriting that. I just don't
know what/why it would change the plugin to 644 which doesn't allow for it
to execute.

As for the NSClient++ - I can have that manually dropped and installed on
the windows (wish there was a cookbook that would do this; however, i would
not be able to controls distributed changes across all windows servers.
What has been done previously by others?

On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Tim Smith tsmith@llnw.com wrote:

NSClient++ can be used for Windows hosts, but there is not a cookbook
that I know of for that right now. In general the idea behind the plugins
is that this should be handled outside of the nagios cookbook itself. You
should create a wrapper cookbook that drops the plugin files into the
correct directory and then you should use the NRPE LWRP to create that
check that uses the plugin. That way you avoid modifying the nagios
cookbook and having to merge in changes from later community releases. In
the past the nagios cookbook included a large number of commonly used
plugins and hardcoded those into the NRPE config. It was a bit of a
nightmare as every environment uses the checks a bit differently. We chose
to remove them all and leave it up to the user to decide what they wanted.

-Tim
[image: Limelight Networks] http://www.limelight.com/ Tim Smith - Systems
Engineer
m: +1 707.738.8132

On Aug 28, 2013, at 12:40 PM, Nikhil Shah nshah@theorchard.com wrote:

Also, do you know if there is a way to check windows server? Typically I
would using NSClient++; however, I do not see a cookbook for this.
*Nikhil Shah */ System Administrator
nshah@theorchard.com drudolph@theorchard.com

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On Aug 28, 2013, at 1:09 PM, Daniel DeLeo dan@kallistec.com wrote:

On Wednesday, August 28, 2013 at 10:05 AM, nshah@theorchard.com wrote:

With some difficulties, I was able to deploy out the nagios cookbook.

GitHub - sous-chefs/nagios: Development repository for the nagios cookbook...

However, I noticed there was no "custom plugins location" so I created one
under files with the following recipe:

remote_directory node['nagios']['plugin_dir'] do
source "plugins"
owner "nagios"
group "nagios"
mode 0775
recursive true
end

However, everytime I push up a new custom plugin, it's not accepting my
mode
0755 and I keep getting the following when I run chef-client

change mode from '' to '0644

What is right above this line? You should see the name of the resource
that's making the change.

--
Daniel DeLeo

--

• Nikhil Shah */ System Administrator

nshah@theorchard.com

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[Nikhil_Shah]

Matt,

I will be touching base with you! I think you may have really helped me out.

Thanks,

Nikhil Shah

On Sep 2, 2013, at 10:10 AM, Mat Davies ashmere@gmail.com wrote:

Nikhil

on the NSClient++ try using the chocolatey cookbook I use that with a quick custom cookbook

the main recipe is

"include_recipe "chocolatey"

if node['kernel']['machine'] == "x86_64"
chocolatey "NSClientPlusPlus.x64"
else
chocolatey "NSClientPlusPlus.x86"
end

template "#{node['chocolatey-base-packages']['nsclientpath']}NSC.ini" do
source "NSC.ini.erb"
action :create
notifies :restart, "service[NSClientpp]", :immediately
end

service "NSClientpp" do
service_name "NSClientpp"
supports :start => true, :stop => true, :restart => true
action [:restart, :enable]
end"

then just create a template NSC.ini.erb

haven't bothered putting it up on community yet as I was planning on putting some reasonable attributes in the template first but haven't had a chance.

-Mat

On 28 August 2013 21:38, Nikhil Shah nshah@theorchard.com wrote:

Tim,

I just created a new receipe that I call within my roles. I was going to had an override attribute/default attribute that chmod's the plugin for 755; however, it seems like something is overwriting that. I just don't know what/why it would change the plugin to 644 which doesn't allow for it to execute.

As for the NSClient++ - I can have that manually dropped and installed on the windows (wish there was a cookbook that would do this; however, i would not be able to controls distributed changes across all windows servers. What has been done previously by others?

On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Tim Smith tsmith@llnw.com wrote:

NSClient++ can be used for Windows hosts, but there is not a cookbook that I know of for that right now. In general the idea behind the plugins is that this should be handled outside of the nagios cookbook itself. You should create a wrapper cookbook that drops the plugin files into the correct directory and then you should use the NRPE LWRP to create that check that uses the plugin. That way you avoid modifying the nagios cookbook and having to merge in changes from later community releases. In the past the nagios cookbook included a large number of commonly used plugins and hardcoded those into the NRPE config. It was a bit of a nightmare as every environment uses the checks a bit differently. We chose to remove them all and leave it up to the user to decide what they wanted.

-Tim

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On Aug 28, 2013, at 12:40 PM, Nikhil Shah nshah@theorchard.com wrote:

Also, do you know if there is a way to check windows server? Typically I would using NSClient++; however, I do not see a cookbook for this.
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On Aug 28, 2013, at 1:09 PM, Daniel DeLeo dan@kallistec.com wrote:

On Wednesday, August 28, 2013 at 10:05 AM, nshah@theorchard.com wrote:

With some difficulties, I was able to deploy out the nagios cookbook.

GitHub - sous-chefs/nagios: Development repository for the nagios cookbook...

However, I noticed there was no "custom plugins location" so I created one
under files with the following recipe:

remote_directory node['nagios']['plugin_dir'] do
source "plugins"
owner "nagios"
group "nagios"
mode 0775
recursive true
end

However, everytime I push up a new custom plugin, it's not accepting my mode
0755 and I keep getting the following when I run chef-client

change mode from '' to '0644

What is right above this line? You should see the name of the resource that's making the change.

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