The idea resulted in reading the book “Python Web Development with Django”. One of the authors describes one of his projects for internal use: a Nagios config manager and i think it’s a great idea. I just played around with the idea but . . . → Read More: New Project: Django-powered Nagios configuration]]> It’s time for a new private project: The Django-powered Nagios configuration.

The idea resulted in reading the book “Python Web Development with Django”. One of the authors describes one of his projects for internal use: a Nagios config manager and i think it’s a great idea. I just played around with the idea but it got pretty usable so far. It’s not in a production ready state but as soon as it may be usable to you i will release it. Here’s a development screenshot:

Modify monitored host

More informations to come… Stay tuned

Details

This plugin monitors a given IMAP mailbox for new mail. When a new mail arrived a CRITICAL error will be . . . → Read More: Nagios Plugins]]> These are some of the Nagios plugins i wrote which may be useful for you. You may download them via http://www.nagiosexchange.org too. All plugins are released under GPLv2 license.

check_imap_mailbox

Details

This plugin monitors a given IMAP mailbox for new mail. When a new mail arrived a CRITICAL error will be returned. No new mail(s) will result in OK

Depencies

• Mail::IMAPClient from CPAN
• Getopt::Long from CPAN

Usage

Usage: check_imap_mailbox [PARAMETERS]
 
Parameters:
 
  --host=[HOSTNAME]      : Name or IP address of IMAP server
  --user=[USERNAME]      : Username to connect with
  --pass=[PASSWORD]      : Password to connect with
  --folder=[IMAP FOLDER] : The IMAP folder to check

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check_imap_mailbox / version 0.1 / size 1.25 kB / dlcount 407

check_jk_status

Details

Check the current status of a given JK loadbalancer. The status is fetched from the management URL (jkstatus). The plugin returns CRITICAL as soon as a cluster node has failed.

Depencies

• XML::Simple from CPAN
• Getopt::Long from CPAN
• wget from gnu.org

Usage

Usage: check_jk_status [PARAMETERS]
 
Parameters:
  --host=[HOSTNAME]        : Name or IP address of JK management interface
  --balancer=[JK BALANCER] : Name of the JK balancer

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check_jk_status / version 0.1 / size 1.72 kB / dlcount 319

check_foundry_ports

Details

Compare the port status of Foundry switches against a given list and returns CRITICAL if any of the ports has status different from the defined value. May indicate that a switch/server failed or a new unauthorized connection took place.

Depencies

• Getopt::Long from CPAN
• snmpget from net-snmp.sourceforge.net

Usage

Usage: check_foundry_ports [PARAMETERS]
 
Parameters:
	    --host=[HOSTNAME]            : Hostname or IP-Address of Foundry device
	    --community=[SNMP COMMUNITY] : SNMP community string
	    --port=[INTERFACE NR]        : The interface number to check (1,2,3,22,...)

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check_foundry_ports / version 0.9 / size 1.91 kB / dlcount 250