Nagios Plugin for IPTABLES Monitoring

[Deborah Martin]

Ok - if I look at your output, manually,  when the plugin is run as the "root" user it produces the correct result.

But, you haven't said what the nrpe user is that is running on the remote node  and whether the same manual run of the check produces the same output.
For example, I run remote plugins through nrpe as the "nagios" user so if I want to manually test a plugin on the remote node, I would first login as the nagios user to ensure I've got the same environment that would be used when running via nrpe. It might be that the variables you have set in the script only work as the root user. It's never a good idea to test as the root  user but only as the same user as that used by nagios or nrpe.

Regards,
Deborah

From: Thilakraj.Shanmugam [mailto:Thilakraj.Shanmugam at canberra.edu.au]
Sent: 14 May 2013 09:58
To: Nagios Users List
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Plugin for IPTABLES Monitoring

Hi Deborah,  Thanks for the response..  please find the details below.


[root at abc libexec]# pwd
/usr/local/nagios/libexec
[root at abc libexec]# ./check_iptables.sh                                                                       <-----  Executing manually script
+ IPT=/sbin/iptables
+ GREP=/bin/grep
+ AWK=/bin/awk
+ EXPR=/usr/bin/expr
+ WC=/usr/bin/wc
+ A=/usr/bin/sudo
+ E_SUCCESS=0
+ E_CRITICAL=2
+ E_UNKNOWN=3
++ /usr/bin/sudo /sbin/iptables -nvL
++ /bin/grep Chain
++ /bin/awk '{ print $2 }'
++ /bin/grep Cid
++ /usr/bin/wc -l
+ CHAINS=5
+ '[' 5 -ne 0 ']'
+ echo 'Firewall is running!'
Firewall is running!
+ exit 0                                                                                                                   <------  it shows firewall running   ( correct output )
[root at abc libexec]#


Client - NRPE config file

[root at abc libexec]# cat /usr/local/nagios/etc/nrpe.cfg |grep -i iptable
command[check_iptables]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_iptables.sh
[root at abc libexec]#


[root at abc libexec]# ./check_nrpe -H localhost -c check_iptables
Firewall is not running                                                                                                        <-----  executing via check_nrpe   (  wrong output )
[root at abc libexec]#


NRPE Logs
-------------

May 14 18:52:28 abc nrpe[31158]: Added command[check_Partion_db]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_disk -w 15% -c 5% -p /db
May 14 18:52:28 abc nrpe[31158]: Added command[check_Partion_app]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_disk -w 15% -c 5% -p /app
May 14 18:52:28 abc nrpe[31158]: Added command[check_iptables]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_iptables.sh
May 14 18:52:28 abc nrpe[31158]: INFO: SSL/TLS initialized. All network traffic will be encrypted.
May 14 18:52:28 abc nrpe[31158]: Handling the connection...
May 14 18:52:28 abc nrpe[31158]: Host is asking for command 'check_iptables' to be run...
May 14 18:52:28 abc nrpe[31158]: Running command: /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_iptables.sh
May 14 18:52:28 abc nrpe[31158]: Command completed with return code 2 and output: Firewall is not running
May 14 18:52:28 abc nrpe[31158]: Return Code: 2, Output: Firewall is not running


Kind Regards,
Thilak


From: Deborah Martin [mailto:Deborah.Martin at kognitio.com]
Sent: Tuesday, 14 May 2013 6:44 PM
To: Nagios Users List
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Plugin for IPTABLES Monitoring

Hi,
What is the wrong output being returned ? This might give us all a clue as to the cause of the problem.
When you run the check manually, are you doing this as the same user that check_nrpe will use ?

Regards,
Deborah



From: Thilakraj.Shanmugam [mailto:Thilakraj.Shanmugam at canberra.edu.au]
Sent: 14 May 2013 08:43
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: [Nagios-users] Nagios Plugin for IPTABLES Monitoring

Greetings!

Could someone send me nagios plugin which is tested and works well for monitoring IPTABLES in Linux.

I have tested below script but it is not returning correct output to nagios server.

If I execute script manually, it shows correct output...

But if I execute via  ./check_nrpe - H localhost -c check_iptables,  it shows wrong output.



Below is my plugin
------------------------------

#!/bin/bash
set -x

IPT='/sbin/iptables'
GREP='/bin/grep'
AWK='/bin/awk'
EXPR='/usr/bin/expr'
WC='/usr/bin/wc'
A='/usr/bin/sudo'

E_SUCCESS="0"
E_CRITICAL="2"
E_UNKNOWN="3"

CHAINS=`$A $IPT -nvL | $GREP 'Chain' | $AWK '{ print $2 }'| $GREP Cid | $WC -l`

                if [ $CHAINS -ne 0 ] ; then
                        echo "Firewall is running!"
                        exit ${E_SUCCESS}

                elif [ $CHAINS -eq 0 ] ; then
                        echo "Firewall is not running"
                        exit ${E_CRITICAL}
                fi



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