8.3. Nagios

Topics

• Nagios
  • Presentation and usage

Nagios is a powerful monitoring system that enables organizations to identify and resolve IT infrastructure problems before they affect critical business processes.

We are providing a set of Nagios scripts, compatible with most of the Monitoring tools (Shinken, Naemon, Sensu...).

8.3.1. Presentation and usage

If you want to monitor how many users are connected an be alerted if a number of connected users is reached:

Usage: check_mss_users -w [warning] -c [critical] -p [1|0]
    -h: show help (this message)
    -w: set maximum connected users before warning
    -c: set maximum connected users before critical
    -p: set maximum connected in percentage instead

So for example, if you want to be warned when you’re raeching 80 users (warning) and receive a critical alert when you’re reaching 100 users:

$ check_mss_users -w 80 -c 100
USERS OK - currently connected 0 / 10 |users=0;80;100

You can also decide to use pertencage instead:

$ check_mss_users -w 80 -c 90 -p 1
USERS OK - currently connected 0 / 10 |users=0;80;90

This will start alerting at 80% and be critical at 90%.