nagios-zmq
is a nagios event broker module that provides nagios information on a zeromq publish/subscribe socket.
This allows you to get the check/notification on a 0mq without polling nagios all the time.
sudo apt-get install libjson0-dev uuid-dev
install libzmq 2.1 from http://www.zeromq.org
sudo yum install json-c-devel zeromq-devel libuuid-devel
make
make install
make client
Add the broker module to your nagios.cfg
.
broker_module=/var/lib/nagios3/nagios-zmq.o
- Subscribe to outgoing messages on port 6666.
- Send incoming messages to port 5555.
[1324481478] message queue: '{ "id": "794e3a38-00df-4d61-b31a-ddcab2f4be54", "context": "NOTIFICATION", "source": "NAGIOS",
"timestamp": "1324481478", "payload": { "hostname": "localhost", "start_time": "1324481478", "end_time": "1324481478",
"service_description": "Swap Usage", "reason_type": "0", "state": "2", "output": "SWAP CRITICAL - 100% free (0 MB out of 0 MB)",
"escalated": "0", "contacts_notified": "1" } }'
[1324481478] message queue: '{ "id": "9b630c2d-54e8-4a4b-931a-593cb665fb8f", "context": "SERVICECHECK", "source": "NAGIOS",
"timestamp": "1324481478", "payload": { "current_attempt": "1", "max_attempts": "1", "state_type": "1", "state": "2",
"timestamp": "1324481478", "execution_time": "0.011632", "hostname": "localhost", "service": "Swap Usage",
"output": "SWAP CRITICAL - 100% free (0 MB out of 0 MB)", "performance": "swap=0MB;0;0;0;0" } }'
[1324481488] message queue: '{ "id": "522799f4-ed65-4a18-90b9-0116b29ddc5e", "context": "HOSTCHECK", "source": "NAGIOS",
"timestamp": "1324481488", "payload": { "current_attempt": "1", "max_attempts": "10", "state_type": "1", "state": "0",
"timestamp": "1324481488", "execution_time": "4.025331", "hostname": "localhost",
"output": "PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 0.05 ms",
"performance": "rta=0.054000ms;3000.000000;5000.000000;0.000000 pl=0%;80;100;0" } }'
The project provides a C-client listerer 'zmqclient'
./zmq_client
There are two sample provided:
-
zmq_client.rb : uses the zmq gem
$ gem instal json $ gem instal zmq
-
zmq_client_ffi.rb : uses the ffi-rzmq gem (could be used for Jruby)
$ gem instal json $ gem instal ffi-rzmq
$ ruby zmq_client.rb Received service check: {"execution_time"=>"4.014652", "current_attempt"=>"1", "timestamp"=>"1324484668", "service"=>"PING", "max_attempts"=>"1", "output"=>"PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 0.06 ms", "performance"=>"rta=0.058000ms;100.000000;500.000000;0.000000 pl=0%;20;60;0", "hostname"=>"localhost", "state"=>"0", "state_type"=>"1"} Received host check: {"execution_time"=>"4.013960", "current_attempt"=>"1", "timestamp"=>"1324485029", "max_attempts"=>"10", "output"=>"PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 0.06 ms", "performance"=> "rta=0.057000ms;3000.000000;5000.000000;0.000000 pl=0%;80;100;0", "hostname"=>"localhost", "state"=>"0", "state_type"=>"1"} Received notification: {"end_time"=>"1324485139", "reason_type"=>"0", "output"=>"Connection refused", "contacts_notified"=>"1", "service_description"=>"HTTP", "hostname"=>"localhost", "escalated"=>"0", "state"=>"2", "start_time"=>"1324485139"}