[chef] Re: nagios plugins

[Tim Smith < >]

NSClient++ can be used for Windows hosts, but there is not a cookbook that I know of for that right now.  In general the idea behind the plugins is that this should be handled outside of the nagios cookbook itself.  You should create a wrapper cookbook that drops the plugin files into the correct directory and then you should use the NRPE LWRP to create that check that uses the plugin.  That way you avoid modifying the nagios cookbook and having to merge in changes from later community releases.   In the past the nagios cookbook included a large number of commonly used plugins and hardcoded those into the NRPE config.  It was a bit of a nightmare as every environment uses the checks a bit differently.  We chose to remove them all and leave it up to the user to decide what they wanted.

-Tim

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On Aug 28, 2013, at 12:40 PM, Nikhil Shah < "> > wrote:

Also, do you know if there is a way to check windows server? Typically I would using NSClient++; however, I do not see a cookbook for this. 

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On Aug 28, 2013, at 1:09 PM, Daniel DeLeo < "> > wrote:

On Wednesday, August 28, 2013 at 10:05 AM, "> wrote:

With some difficulties, I was able to deploy out the nagios cookbook.

https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/nagios...

However, I noticed there was no "custom plugins location" so I created one

under files with the following recipe:

remote_directory node['nagios']['plugin_dir'] do

source "plugins"

owner "nagios"

group "nagios"

mode 0775

recursive true

end

However, everytime I push up a new custom plugin, it's not accepting my mode

0755 and I keep getting the following when I run chef-client

change mode from '' to '0644

What is right above this line? You should see the name of the resource that's making the change.

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Daniel DeLeo