monitoring_plugins

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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'