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6 collectd-nagios - Nagios plugin for querying collectd
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9 collectd-nagios -s socket -n value_spec -H hostname [options]
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12 This small program is the glue between collectd and nagios. collectd
13 collects various performance statistics which it provides via the
14 "unixsock plugin", see collectd-unixsock(5). This program is called by
15 Nagios, connects to the UNIX socket and reads the values from collectd.
16 It then returns OKAY, WARNING or CRITICAL depending on the values and
17 the ranges provided by Nagios.
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20 The following arguments and options are required and understood by
21 collectd-nagios. The order of the arguments generally doesn't matter,
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23 -s socket
25 Path of the UNIX socket opened by collectd's "unixsock plugin".
26 -n value_spec
28 The value to read from collectd. The argument is in the form
29 "plugin[-instance]/type[-instance]".
30 -H hostname
32 Hostname to query the values for.
33 -d data_source
35 Each value_spec may be made of multiple "data sources". With this
36 option you can select one or more data sources. To select multiple
37 data sources simply specify this option again. If multiple data
38 sources are examined they are handled according to the
39 consolidation function given with the -g option.
40 -g none|average|sum
42 When multiple data sources are selected from a value spec, they can
43 be handled differently depending on this option. The values of the
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45 none
47 No consolidation if done and the warning and critical regions
48 are applied to each value independently.
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51 The warning and critical ranges are applied to the average of
52 all values.
53 sum The warning and critical ranges are applied to the sum of all
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58 The warning and critical ranges are applied to the ratio (in
59 percent) of the first value and the sum of all values. A
60 warning is returned if the first value is not defined or if all
61 values sum up to zero.
62 -c range
64 -w range
65 Set the critical (-c) and warning (-w) ranges. These options mostly
66 follow the normal syntax of Nagios plugins. The general format is
67 "min:max". If a value is smaller than min or bigger than max, a
68 warning or critical status is returned, otherwise the status is
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70 The tilde sign (~) can be used to explicitly specify infinity. If ~
72 is used as a min value, negative infinity is used. In case of max,
73 it is interpreted as positive infinity.
74 If the first character of the range is the at sign (@), the meaning
76 of the range will be inverted. I. e. all values within the range
77 will yield a warning or critical status, while all values outside
78 the range will result in a success status.
79 min (and the colon) may be omitted, min is then assumed to be zero.
81 If max (but not the trailing colon) is omitted, max is assumed to
82 be positive infinity.
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85 As usual for Nagios plugins, this program writes a short, one line
86 status message to STDOUT and signals success or failure with it's
87 return value. It exits with a return value of 0 for success, 1 for
88 warning and 2 for critical. If the values are not available or some
89 other error occurred, it returns 3 for unknown.
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92 collectd(1), collectd.conf(5), collectd-unixsock(5),
93 <http://nagios.org/>
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96 Florian Forster <octo at verplant.org>
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