Monitoring ActiveMQ using NCPA

[meganwilliford]

I came across this document to be able to monitor ActiveMQ: https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ios-XI.pdf. It requires downloading the plugin from the Nagios XI script repository: https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... vemq_watch. However, the instructions are specific to using NRPE. Is this script also compatible with NCPA? If so I'm guessing the location of the script would have to be placed in the /usr/local/ncpa/plugin folder on the remote server, change permissions to nagios, and the check command would be something more like: -t '<token>' -P 5693 -M 'plugins/check_activemq.sh'?

[ssax]

The plugin is not a .sh script, it is a perl file, so if you want to add the extension on it, change it to .pl.

Yes, the script should work with NCPA. Make sure to install the dependencies though on the remote NCPA host:

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yum install -y perl-Switch perl-XML-Simple

Put the plugin in:

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/usr/local/ncpa/plugins

Then:

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chown nagios.nagios /usr/local/ncpa/plugins/activemq_watch
chmod +x /usr/local/ncpa/plugins/activemq_watch

Make sure you make the modifications listed in the guide:

https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ios-XI.pdf

Then call it:

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/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_ncpa.py -H X.X.X.X -t 'yourtoken' -P 5693 -M 'plugins/activemq_watch' -a -w 10 -c 20

[meganwilliford]

Perfect! Thank you so much. I'll follow up once we've tested it.

[ssax]

No problem! Sounds good, we'll keep an eye out for your updates.