The curse of Dennis D. Spreen

Monitoring with OMD (with Nagios Core) on Debian 7 Wheezy

As Centreon (my favourite monitoring tool with nagios core) still does not support PHP 5.4+ and my boxes are now on Debian 7 (with PHP 5.4) and I didn’t want to downgrade to PHP 5.3 (for various reasons), I’ve searched for an alternative frontend for nagios. Well, I’ve found a lot but only to mention a few here:  Nagios XI (free for small environments => max. 7 hosts, oh come on, with vms on the run, really way too few), Adagios (looks nice and clean) and finally OMD which got me with its easy setup on debian 7.
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Tags: monitoring, Nagios, omd

check_apachestatus_auto.pl v1.2 released

A Nagios plugin that parses the status page of an apache or lighttpd server, the plugin returns the response time, the amount of idle, busy, open (apache only) and total slots. The perfdata returns the status of all slots including Requests/sec, Bytes/Request and Bytes/sec. Optionally you can specify how much slots should be available. Use http(s) and basic user authentication with non standard server-status urls. This is an enhanced version of an enhanced version of Lieven De Bodt’s check_apachestatus.pl.

Detailed info at http://blog.spreendigital.de/nagios/?#check_apachestatus_auto

Whats new
v1.1 Works with lighttpd server-status as well, added accesses perfdata (Lighttpd v1.4.19 tested)
v1.2 Updated perf data to be PNP compliant, added proxy option

Download
check_apachestatus_auto.tgz v1.2
check_apachestatus_auto.php.tgz (PNP template)

Tags: apache, lighttpd, Nagios, plugin, server-status.

nagios_mdaemon_check.exe v1.0 released

A Nagios NRPE plugin that checks the active connections to and from a MDaemon server,
the plugin checks and returns the SMTP, POP, IMAP, WorldClient and Webadmin connections.
WorldClient and Webadmin connection detection is limited because of the stateless
connections to the server.

Download
nagios_mdaemon_check.zip v1.0

Detailed info at http://blog.spreendigital.de/nagios/?#nagios_mdaemon_check

Tags: mdaemon, Nagios, nrpe, plugin

check_apachestatus_auto.pl v1.1 released

A Nagios plugin that parses the status page of an apache or lighttpd server, the plugin returns the response time, the amount of idle, busy, open (apache only) and total slots. The perfdata returns the status of all slots including Requests/sec, Bytes/Request and Bytes/sec. Optionally you can specify how much slots should be available. Use http(s) and basic user authentication with non standard server-status urls. This is an enhanced version of an enhanced version of Lieven De Bodt’s check_apachestatus.pl.

Detailed info at http://blog.spreendigital.de/nagios/?#check_apachestatus_auto

Whats new
v1.1 Works with lighttpd server-status as well, added accesses perfdata (Lighttpd v1.4.19 tested)

Download

check_apachestatus_auto.tgz v1.1

Tags: apache, lighttpd, Nagios, plugin, server-status.

check_apachestatus_auto.pl v1.0 released

A Nagios plugin that parses the status page of an apache server, the plugin returns the response time, the amount of idle, busy, open and total slots. The perfdata returns the status of all slots including Requests/sec, Bytes/Request and Bytes/sec. Optionally you can specify how much slots should be available. Use http(s) and basic user authentication with non standard server-status urls. This is an enhanced version of an enhanced version of Lieven De Bodt’s check_apachestatus.pl.

Detailed info at http://blog.spreendigital.de/nagios/?#check_apachestatus_auto

Download

check_apachestatus_auto.zip v1.0

Tags: apache, lighttpd, Nagios, plugin, server-status.