check_memory unable to read output Nagios nrpe
While setting up the nagios Monitoring system in my new network.I decided to use check_memory plugin. I downloaded the plugin from exchange.nagios.com
Here below one is given link.
check_mem_avail
While working I got this error from check_memory plugin “NRPE : unable to read output” . After debugging I found the NRPE was not able to read the output from check_memory plugin because of in if statement in bash script [[ ]] was used,so I modify it to [ ] .
To implement the check_memory plugin gawk and bc command should work.So I installed the gawk and bc command in system
apt-get install gawk bc
Now copy paste the given below code and make a file check_memory and give it execute permission by command chmod 755 check_memory
.And put it at nagios plugin directory. In my case it is /usr/lib/nagios/plugins
vi check_memory # $Id: check_mem,v 1.3 2008/09/17 21:47:03 nagios Exp nagios $ # # Revision 1.4 2013/07/02 02:09 PM IST nagios # Author : sharad kumar chhetri (for revision 1.4) # # $Log: check_mem,v $ # Revision 1.3 2008/09/17 21:47:03 nagios # dropped free in favor of using /proc/meminfo # # Revision 1.2 2008/09/17 21:00:24 nagios # added usage statement and input validation from http://www.nagiosexchange.org/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=2099.html;d=1 # respects to the author # # Revision 1.1 2008/09/17 20:57:38 nagios # Initial revision # # This plugin excludes the system cache and buffer, because on systems with stable memory # usage it is perfectly normal for system cache to fill in all available memory # (most of it can be freed at any time if applications requires it). # Please keep a margin for system cache and buffers when setting thresholds. # #!/bin/bash USAGE="`basename $0` [-w|--warning][-c|--critical] " THRESHOLD_USAGE="WARNING threshold must be greater than CRITICAL: `basename $0` $*" # print usage if [ $# -lt 4 ] then echo "" echo "Wrong Syntax: `basename $0` $*" echo "" echo "Usage: $USAGE" echo "" exit 0 fi # read input while [ $# -gt 0 ] do case "$1" in -w|--warning) shift warning=$1 ;; -c|--critical) shift critical=$1 ;; esac shift done # verify input if [[ $warning -eq $critical || $warning -lt $critical ]] then echo "" echo "$THRESHOLD_USAGE" echo "" echo "Usage: $USAGE" echo "" exit 0 fi # Total physical memory total=`cat /proc/meminfo |head -n 1 |tail -n 1| gawk '{print $2}'` # Free physical memory free=`cat /proc/meminfo |head -n 2 |tail -n 1| gawk '{print $2}'` # Buffers buffers=`cat /proc/meminfo |head -n 3 |tail -n 1| gawk '{print $2}'` # Cached cached=`cat /proc/meminfo |head -n 4 |tail -n 1| gawk '{print $2}'` #Available physical memory available=`echo "$free+$buffers+$cached" | bc` # make it into % percent free = ((free mem / total mem) * 100) percent=`echo "scale=2; $available/$total*100" | bc` #echo $total #echo $free #echo $buffers #echo $cached #echo $available #echo $percent #echo $critical #echo $warning #echo `echo "$percent <= $critical"|bc` #echo `echo "$percent <= $warning"|bc` #echo `echo "$percent > $warning"|bc` if [ "`echo "$percent <= $critical"|bc`" -eq 1 ] then echo "CRITICAL - $available KB ($percent%) Free Memory" exit 2 fi if [ "`echo "$percent <= $warning"|bc`" -eq 1 ] then echo "WARNING - $available KB ($percent%) Free Memory" exit 1 fi if [ "`echo "$percent > $warning"|bc`" -eq 1 ] then echo "OK - $availabe KB ($percent%) Free Memory" exit 0 fi