Hi Chris,
needrestart has already a simple nagios plugin mode (available since
2.1) - please take a look at README.nagios.md. Maybe you are looking for
a nagios-plugin-needrestart package shipping the example config files?
HTH,
Thomas
On 05/31/2015 07:06 AM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> Package: needrestart
> Version: 2.1-1
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: upstream
>
>
> Hi.
>
> It would be great if a (ideally C or C++) Icinga/Nagios plugin
> could be written, that can be used to check a system for
> processes needed to be restarted.
>
> Ideas for that could include the following:
> - Use the performance data field to report the number of:
> - user processes
> - root processes
> - other system users (i.e. not normal users not root) processes
> - "the number of" kernel(s) to be restarted (i.e. 0 or 1).
> that are currently to be restarted.
> This allows a site to monitor its node and the
> up-to-date-or-not history
> - option switches to the plugin that allows to enable/disable
> checking for each:
> - root processes
> - user processes
> - other system users (i.e. not normal users not root) processes
> - and include/exclude list of uids and/or gids, which are checked
> - the kernel
> - perhaps things like the min. age of a process, before it would trigger
> a warning/error for the plugin
> - if it should ever become easily possible to determine whether the
> process needed to be restarted contained security updates since,
> one could e.g. make such process and Icinga/Nagios error, and all
> other processes (needed to be restarted, but without security issues)
> a warning.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Chris.
>
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