nagios check_sip plugin

[Robert McNaught]

Does  anyone have a working example of the check_sip plugin working,
if so could they post the command definition and the service
definition?

Thanks

Robert

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Robert McNaught <asteriskator at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I am using Nagios 3 on CentOS 5.
>
> I am not understanding how to set up a service check for SIP (Session
> Initiation Protocol).
>
> I can run the check_sip perl script from the command line and get a
> valid response, but cannot get it to work under nagios.
>
> [root at lab01 libexec]# /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_sip -u
> sip:username at server.hostname.com -f sip:username at server.hostname.com
> -H server.hostname.com
> SIP/2.0 200 OK, 0.017372 seconds response
> time|rtt=0.017372s;0.5s;1s;0:10; code=200
>
>
> I have added in a command definition in commands.cfg:
>
> #'check_sip' command definition added by RJM
> define command{
>       command_name    check_sip
>       command_line    check_sip -u sip:username at server.hostname.com
> -f sip:username at server.hostname.com -H server.hostname.com
>
> }
>
> I have a host and service definition also of:
>
>
> define host{
>       use             generic-switch          ; Inherit default
> values from a template
>       host_name       server.hostname.com            ; The name
> we're giving to this switch
>       alias           server ; A longer name associated with the wtch
>       address         XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX            ; IP address of the switch
>       hostgroups      core               ; Host groups this switch
> is associated with
>       }
>
>
> define service{
>       use                             core-template
>       host_name                       server.hostname.com
>       service_description             SIP test
>       check_command                   check_sip
> #        contact_groups                  voip-admins
>       max_check_attempts              4
>       normal_check_interval           5
>       retry_check_interval            1
>       notification_interval           240
>       check_period                    24x7
>       notification_period             24x7
>       notification_options            c,r
> }
>
>
> I run the configuration check utility and it returns no errors, I
> restart nagios, and the host always appears down.
>
> I see some of the other command definitions have something like
>
> command_line    $USER1$/check_http -I $HOSTADDRESS$ $ARG1$
>
> but I have no idea what the variables are in this line and what
> relevance they have....
>
> Can someone explain if I need to have these variables and what they
> actually mean?  I believed that if I can run it from the command line,
> then I should just be able to use the same command in the command
> definition, or does it not work like that?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Robert
>

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