Re: [Users] Fwd: Nagios monitoring plugin check_rhev3 1.2 released

On 05/22/2013 03:55 PM, René Koch (ovido) wrote: > > On Wed, 2013-05-22 at 14:59 +0300, Itamar Heim wrote: >>> -------- Original Message -------- >>> Subject: [Users] Nagios monitoring plugin check_rhev3 1.2 released >>> Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 16:31:24 +0200 >>> From: René Koch <r.koch(a)ovido.at&gt; >>> To: users <Users(a)ovirt.org&gt; >>> >>> I'm happy to announce version 1.2 of check_rhev3. >>> >>> check_rhev3 is a monitoring plugin for Icinga/Nagios and it's forks, >>> which is >>> used to monitor datacenters, clusters, hosts, vms, vm pools and >>> storage >>> domains >>> of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) and oVirt virtualization >>> environments. >>> >>> The download locations are >>> * >>> https://labs.ovido.at/download/check_rhev3/check_rhev3-1.2.tar.gz >>> * >>> https://labs.ovido.at/download/check_rhev3/nagios-plugins-rhev3-1.2-1.el6... >>> >>> >>> * >>> https://labs.ovido.at/download/check_rhev3/nagios-plugins-rhev3-1.2-1.el6... >>> >>> >>> >>> For further information on how to install this plugin visit: >>> >>> https://github.com/ovido/check_rhev3/wiki/Installation-Documentation >>> >>> A detailed usage documentation can be found here: >>> https://github.com/ovido/check_rhev3/wiki/Usage-Documentation >>> >>> >>> Changelog: >>> >>> - General: >>> - Moved project to github: https://github.com/ovido/check_rhev3 >>> >>> - New features: >>> - Verify RHEV-M certificate >>> - Allow authentication sessions for authentication in RHEV >= 3.1 >>> and >>> oVirt >= 3.1 >>> - Use option -n <nic> to check a specific nic >>> >>> - Bugs fixed: >>> - Performance data issue with check_multi >>> >>> >>> If you have any questions or ideas, please drop me an email: ​ >>> r.koch(a)ovido.at. >>> >>> Thank you for using check_rhev3. >>> >>> >>> >> >> Hi Rene, >> >> we deployed the plugin and noticed its flooding the event log with >> login >> events for the user its using via the REST API. >> can you please add persistent session to the REST API calls so login >> will happen only once and won't flood the log? >> >> http://www.ovirt.org/Features/RESTSessionManagement > > > It's one of the features in the latest version (1.2): > > -o, --cookie > Use cookie based authenticated sessions (requires RHEV >= 3.1) > > > I implemented it in the following way: > - Plugin checks if file with session cookie exists (per default > in /var/tmp) > - If not: login with username and password (that's why you need to > specify auth pair or authfile) and fetch JSESSIONID > -- Writes ID into session cookie file > - If cookie file is found: login using JSESSIONID and ignore username > and password. So you can change username/password and login will still > work. > - If login using session ID fails and cookie file exists, it will be > deleted and a login with username and password is tried the next time > the plugin is executed > > If you start the script with -vvv you can see if login is down with auth > session or with username/password... > > I didn't test it with oVirt 3.2 (yet), but works fine in RHEV 3.1. well, we are trying it with next version of RHEV actually :) sasha - can you please start the script with -vvv to provide the log for login behavior?

Thanks, Itamar