Ansible Role: monitoring-plugins

installs an set of monitoring- or nagios-plugins on various systems.

Requirements & Dependencies

not known

Operating systems

• ArchLinux
• Debian based
  • Debian 10 / 11 / 12
  • Ubuntu 20.04 / 22.04

RedHat-based systems are no longer officially supported! May work, but does not have to.

configuration

archlinux based

monitoring_plugins_arch:
  - monitoring-plugins

debian based

monitoring_plugins_debian:
  - monitoring-plugins-standard
  - monitoring-plugins-basic
  - monitoring-plugins-common

redhat based

monitoring_plugins_redhat:
  - nagios-plugins
  - nagios-plugins-disk
  - nagios-plugins-dns
  - nagios-plugins-file_age
  - nagios-plugins-fping
  - nagios-plugins-http
  - nagios-plugins-icmp
  - nagios-plugins-ldap
  - nagios-plugins-load
  - nagios-plugins-mailq
  - nagios-plugins-mysql
  - nagios-plugins-ntp
  - nagios-plugins-ping
  - nagios-plugins-procs
  - nagios-plugins-sensors
  - nagios-plugins-smtp
  - nagios-plugins-snmp
  - nagios-plugins-ssh
  - nagios-plugins-swap
  - nagios-plugins-tcp
  - nagios-plugins-time
  - nagios-plugins-uptime
  - nagios-plugins-users

remove monitoring plugins from list

nagios-plugins-mysql and MariaDB from epel are not compatible in CentoOS 8. (read this issue)

If necessary, some of the plugins can be removed from the previously defined list:

monitoring_plugins_blacklist:
  - nagios-plugins-mysql

extra plugins

This role provides some small monitoring plugins. These are located in the files directory:

monitoring_plugins_extra:
  - restart_service
  - check_hostname
  - check_diskstat.sh
  - check_uptime.sh
  - check_mem
  - check_requiered_reboot.sh

download external plugins

To install external plugins from other git repositories, you can use monitoring_plugins_download:

monitoring_plugins_download:
  - url: 'https://gitlab.com/coremedia-as-code/monitoring/monitoring-plugins/raw/master/icinga2/check_coremedia_licenses.py'
    dest: 'check_coremedia_licenses.py'
    checksum: ''
    validate: false
  - url: 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bodsch/check_arch_updates/1.0/check_arch_updates'
    dest: 'check_arch_updates'
    checksum: 'sha256:7afa562aaedb63f6e93cfebfa4a9a3ea49fecda62d4dae3d8ff919b76c117c41'

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Contribution

Please read Contribution

Development, Branches (Git Tags)

The master Branch is my Working Horse includes the "latest, hot shit" and can be complete broken!

If you want to use something stable, please use a Tagged Version!

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Author and License

• Bodo Schulz

License

Apache

FREE SOFTWARE, HELL YEAH!