[collectd] Nagios plugins

[Frédéric Pégé]

https://github.com/h4wkmoon/collectd-nagios


2013/2/20 Frédéric Pégé <frederic.pege at gmail.com>

> Hi,
> I'm creating something in github.
> My approach was to  :
> * add discovery features in collectd.py
> * add a formula feature in collectd.py. like the one mentionned in the
> '"output formatting" of the page you've just sent.
>
> And given these 2 features, writting plugins is it very easy.
> Threshold are managed by the monitoring tool
> (nagios/icinga/shinken/centreon). Collected statistics are managed by
> Collectd.
> To be honest, I don't like the idea of the monitoring (threshold, alerts,
> ....) being configured in Collectd.
>
> An improvement can be made by adding a "GET SEVERAL VALUES" function in
> python. This func would return a list of values, given a list of items.
> It would reduce the number of request made to the unixsocket.
>
> Fred.
>
>
> 2013/2/20 Sebastian Harl <sh at tokkee.org>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 02:56:30PM +0100, Frédéric Pégé wrote:
>> > For those who're interested, I've developped a few plugins for
>> > Nagios/Centreon/Icinga/Shinken to check a few things from Collectd
>> > Load / Mem / Swap / NIC / Spase / Disk IO
>> >
>> > The advantage of that is to connect only to one server : the collectd
>> > central node.
>> >
>> > They are written in python using the CollectD module shipped in
>> "contrib"
>> > (I've added a few funcs), and nagaconda.
>>
>> How about submitting the new functions to collectd? Either send a patch
>> to this list or (preferred) open a pull request on Github.
>>
>> > I've also written a few files for shinken packs, and a discovery
>> scripts.
>> > It connects to the unixsocket and gets the hosts lists, and each of them
>> > the nic list, disk list, mount-point list, ...
>> >
>> > Anyone interested ?
>> > Where I can put that stuff ?
>>
>> Sounds interesting. I'd go for creating a new project for that on some
>> project / code hosting site or making the code available through your
>> website (if available).
>>
>> Also, I think it would make sense to add some notes about this to
>> <https://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Collectd-nagios> in a new section
>> (e.g. "Alternate approaches").
>>
>> As a side-note: I've already had the idea of doing something similar
>> using Lua. The advantage of Lua would be that writing new code should
>> still be fairly easy for everybody but it could also fairly easy be
>> embedded into C programs. E.g. the mod-gearman worker comes to my mind
>> :-)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Sebastian
>>
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