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Hello All, I am sure I won't be the last person to be caught by this issue for AWS Servers, and until Nagios implements support for SSL in the Check_xi_mysql_health, here is what we were able to work out. These lines were added to the plugin file at line 1863 $self->{dsn} .= ";mysql_ssl=1"...

I have a number of Memory Usage monitors related to AWS EC2 machines that run my organization's API and websites, etc. It was noticed recently that some of these servers have been totally pegged on Memory, but our Nagios alerts for Memory Usage are not alerting us to the high usage. This is because ...

Thanks for the reply here once again Scott, The paths in that article are a little out of date but I was able to find the file in question for the plugin, unfortunately at this point I do not believe we are able to obtain the SSL Certificates in question as they are also managed on the RDS side and ...

Thanks for the reply Scott, unfortunately check_mysql also doesn't accomplish what we are looking for either, since these are mainly performance related alarms like table cache hitrate, cpu usage, memory usage, active connections, etc.

Unfortunately I am not able to access the host, so NRPE isn't going to work in this case, anyone else out there have a potential solution for this? Can anyone from Nagios tell me when/if the check_mysql_health command is going to support SSL? Seems silly that it doesn't given the current state of cy...

Thanks for the suggestion. I am not sure if NRPE will work here, I do not have access to the host of the database because they are AWS RDS Hosted instances. I will have to take a look into the possibility for doing that with RDS though.

My organization recently made a change to forcing all connections to our AWS RDS Instances to use SSL, unfortunately I am now having problems with around 32 of my service alarms failing because the check_xi_mysql_health command does not support SSL. It was recommended to use the check_mysql plugin b...