Monitoring Proofpoint appliances

[emartine]

I was just told that one of our Proofpoint systems experienced a queue issue last night and I was asked to monitoring the queues on these appliances. I have not been able to find any docs on how to monitor proofpoint devices. Anyone know of any snmp checks that can be done?

[mcapra]

Is your use case covered by an API call?

https://help.proofpoint.com/Threat_Insi ... umentation

[emartine]

Why do you ask?

[mcapra]

If there was an API call that returned the metric you're looking for, or something you could use to extrapolate out for what you wanted, it probably wouldn't be that tricky to build a plugin around it.

That and I've been unable to find much documentation about comparable CLI tools or what queuing mechanism they use on the back-end.

[tmcdonald]

APIs are a great way to monitor something, as they generally have solid documentation, authentication, and sometimes parameters you can set. SNMP, while widely available, is not always an option, and lacks a lot of the flexibility that an API provides. If Proofpoint exposes metrics over an API, it is fairly trivial to write a plugin that can use it.

Edit: @mcapra beat me to it.

[emartine]

Are there examples out there I can use that would help create an API plugin?

[mcapra]

This plugin allows you to check JSON attributes generically which is useful if the condition you're evaluating is held in a single JSON attribute returned by a REST API call:
https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/P ... s)/details

If you had a convenient "queue" object returned by a REST API call (maybe something like this):

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{
	"name":"My Great Queue",
	"metrics": {
		"queued":20000,
		"state":"waiting"
	}
}

The check_json plugin is probably appropriate if you want to check how large the "queued" attribute is or what the value of "state" is.

Here's one I wrote a while back that leverages the Nagios Log Server API (more so the ElasticSearch API) to monitor the command subsystem within Nagios Log Server:
https://github.com/mcapra/nagios-check_ ... mmands.php

[scottwilkerson]

Thanks again @mcapra