Nagios monitoring of tinc

[Cédric Lemarchand]

> Le 15 juin 2014 à 12:34, Guus Sliepen <guus at tinc-vpn.org> a écrit :
> 
>> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 11:06:25AM +0200, Nick Hibma wrote:
>> 
>> Does any of you have a sensible way of monitoring tinc? I haven’t tried anything yet, sorry for that. I’d like to avoid log spamming like the check_ssh plugin does (‘10+ preauth' warnings a day).
>> 
>> check_tcp is an option, but I was wondering whether anyone cooked up something more sensible.
> 
> It depends on what and how you want to monitor. If you only want to know
> if a local tinc daemon is still running, then the following script could
> be enough:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> kill -0 `cut -f 1 -d ' ' /var/run/tinc.NETNAME.pid`
> 
> If you want to monitor it remotely, then either ssh to the host running
> tinc and run the above command, or run a tinc daemon on the Nagios host
> and add host-up/down scripts to record which nodes are up, or if you use
> tinc 1.1 you could use the "tinc info" command to check whether a node
> is up or not.

Hello,

Just a FYI, Nagios can natively monitor daemon on remote hosts via snmp, to do so you have to :

- install snmpd on the host to be monitored and configure it to accept remote snmp request. 
- configure the check on the Nagios

For advanced checks I think you could use NRPE.

Cheers

Cedric 

> 
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> Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
>     Guus Sliepen <guus at tinc-vpn.org>
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