[Users] Fwd: Nagios monitoring plugin check_rhev3 1.2 released

[Sasha Chuzhoy]

On 05/22/2013 05:18 PM, Itamar Heim wrote:
> 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 at ovido.at>
>>>> To: users <Users at ovirt.org>
>>>>
>>>> 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.i686.rpm 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     *
>>>> https://labs.ovido.at/download/check_rhev3/nagios-plugins-rhev3-1.2-1.el6.x86_64.rpm 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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 at 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?
>
Here is all (I hope) the relevant data:
[V] Starting the main script.
[V] Checking which component to monitor.
[D] check_host: Called function check_host.
[V] Host: Checking host .
[V] Host: No subcheck is specified, checking memory usage.
[D] check_statistics: Called function check_statistics.
[V] Statistics: Checking statistics of hosts.
[D] check_statistics: Input parameter $component: hosts
[D] check_statistics: Input parameter $search:
[D] check_statistics: Input parameter $statistics: memory
[D] check_statistics: Converting variables.
[D] check_statistics: Converted variable $url: hosts
[D] get_result: Called function get_result.
[D] get_result: Input parameter $_[0]: /hosts?search=
[D] get_result: Input parameter $xml: hosts
[D] get_result: Input parameter $search: id
[D] rhev_connect: Called function rhev_connect.
[V] REST-API: Connecting to REST-API.
[D] rhev_connect: Input parameter: /hosts?search=.
[V] REST-API: RHEVM-API URL: https://<hostname>:8443/api/hosts?search=
[V] REST-API: RHEVM-API User: <username>
[V] REST-API: RHEVM-API Password: <password>
[V] REST-API: cookie filename: 
bm90dDA0LmVuZy5sYWIudGx2LnJlZGhhdC5jb20tdmlld2VyQG5vdHQwNC5lbmcubGFiLnRsdi5y
ZWRoYXQuY29tCg==
[D] rhev_connect: Using username and password authentication.
[V] REST-API: Cache-Control: no-cache
Connection: close
Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 07:50:33 GMT
Pragma: No-cache
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
Content-Type: application/xml
Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 02:00:00 IST
Client-Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 07:50:33 GMT
Client-Peer: 10.35.16.97:8443
Client-Response-Num: 1
Client-SSL-Cert-Issuer: /C=US/O=Red Hat TLV/CN=CA-<FQDN>.31149
Client-SSL-Cert-Subject: /C=US/O=Red Hat TLV/CN=<FQDN>
Client-SSL-Cipher: DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA
Client-SSL-Warning: Peer certificate not verified
Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=8gUbxG1-uk8HOi2tq4krw7tq; Path=/api; Secure
[D] rhev_connect: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<hosts>
##### The output is truncated ########
> Thanks,
>    Itamar
>


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Sasha Chuzhoy
Engineering Operations
Red Hat Israel Ltd