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Using HTTP for passive checks

Using cmd.cgi

This description is valid for Nagios 3.

In situations, where you cannot use send_nsca for submitting passive check results over the network, you can use the Nagios web interface. You need an http account

  • Allowed to access nagios by your webserver, normally accomplished with Basic Auth and htpasswd.
  • Allowed to submit passive check results via cgi, this can be done either by
    • via dedicated permissions on the host(s) and service(s) in question

or

  • Allowed to view all services/hosts1) via /etc/nagios3/cgi.cfg
  • Allowed to submit commands for all services/hosts2) via /etc/nagios3/cgi.cfg

At least if you are going to use dedicated permissions, you need to define a nagios contact, that might look like:

define contact{
        contact_name                    passive_via_http
        alias                           passive_via_http
        service_notification_period     never
        host_notification_period        never
        service_notification_options    n
        host_notification_options       n
        service_notification_commands   notify-service-by-email
        host_notification_commands      notify-host-by-email
      }

Assuming you have your credentionals for the account http_remote saved in either ~/.wgetrc or ~/.netrc, this example will submit a passive check result for the service TEST on host localhost in status UNKNOWN3):

wget -O - \
     --user=passive_via_http \
     --auth-no-challenge \
     --no-check-cert \
'https://<nagios-server>/cgi-bin/nagios3/cmd.cgi'\
'?cmd_typ=30'\
'&cmd_mod=2'\
'&host=localhost'\
'&service=TEST'\
'&plugin_state=3'\
'&plugin_output=Test+mit+wget+II'\
'&btnSubmit=Commit'

Of course, in a large environment with appropriate security needs, you would write a PHP script that is restricted to write passive checks.

Using PHP

If you prefer a separate PHP script, this may serve as a skeleton:

<?php
$state_str=array( 0 => 'OK'     , 
                  1 => 'WARN'   ,
                  2 => 'CRIT'   ,
                  3 => 'UNKNOWN') ;
$nsca_host="localhost" ;
$send_nsca="/usr/sbin/send_nsca" ;
?>
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>http nsca reciever</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<?php
$log_fh=fopen("/tmp/nsca.php.log","a") ;
fwrite($log_fh,'========= BEGIN ============'."\n");
?><H2>Input</H2><?php
while (list ($key, $val) = each ($_REQUEST)) {
 print htmlentities("$key = '$val'")."<BR>\n";
 fwrite($log_fh,"$key = '$val'\n");
 }

$host    = $_REQUEST['host'] ;
$service = $_REQUEST['service'] ;
$state   = $_REQUEST['state'] ;
$msg     = $_REQUEST['msg'] ;
?><H2>Output</H2><?php
$nsca_fh=popen($send_nsca.' -H '.$nsca_host,"w") ;
fwrite($nsca_fh,sprintf("%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\n",$host,$service,$state,$msg));
fwrite($log_fh,sprintf("%s<T>%s<T>%s<T>%s\n",$host,$service,$state.' ('.$state_str[$state].')',$msg));
printf("<TABLE BORDER=1><TR><TD>Host</TD><TD>Service</TD><TD>State</TD><TD>Message</TD></TR>".
       "<TR><TD>%s</TD><TD>%s</TD><TD>%s</TD><TD>%s</TD></TR></TABLE>\n",$host,$service,$state.' ('.$state_str[$state].')',$msg);
pclose($nsca_fh);

fwrite($log_fh,'========= END ============'."\n");
fclose($log_fh);
?>
</BODY>
</HTML>

Nagios Monitoring

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docs/tips_n_tricks/nagios/using_http_for_passive_checks.txt · Last modified: 23.10.2012 10:54 CEST by peter

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