Apache Server Status

[peakyblinder]

Hi,

Has anyone tried or using either of thees Apache Server Status plugins. Have tried contacting the owner but no joy.
http://nagios.frank4dd.com/howto/apache ... nagios.htm (check_apache_status.pl)
https://github.com/appfirst/nagios-plug ... us_auto.pl

Both pretty do much of the same thing. However both report my available slots open as 'open 1671/1920'. This equates to the 249 ThreadsPerChild setting on the Apache server. However, this value never changes no matter how many threads are in use. Also, when I set a warning or critical, its always say "Check warn and crit!".

Not sure if it makes any difference but its Windows Apache I am trying to monitor.

Just running the command './check_apachestatus_auto.pl -H IP' gives the standard output;
APACHE OK - 0.095 sec. response time, Busy/Idle 26/223, open 1671/1920, ReqPerSec 0.0, BytesPerReq 0, BytesPerSec 0|Idle=223 Busy=26 OpenSlots=1671 Slots=1920 Starting=0 Reading=0 Sending=8 Keepalive=15 DNS=0 Closing=3 Logging=0 Finishing=0 ReqPerSec=0.000000 BytesPerReq=0 BytesPerSec=0.000000 Accesses=0

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

[tmcdonald]

Is there a Linux Apache server you could test against? It could be that there are differences in how the Windows and the Linux versions report metrics.

[peakyblinder]

Hi,

Seems I was only testing with the warning flag thinking it would show something so when also used the critical flag I get a response. However, it doesn't matter what i set the warning flag to I always get 'Apache OK'.

Available slots = 1920
Open slots (always) 1671
Leaving 249

./check_apachestatus_auto.pl -H xx.xx.xx.xxx
APACHE OK - 0.065 sec. response time, Busy/Idle 19/230, open 1671/1920, ReqPerSec 10.8, BytesPerReq 58910, BytesPerSec 633416|Idle=230 Busy=19 OpenSlots=1671 Slots=1920 Starting=0 Reading=0 Sending=6 Keepalive=12 DNS=0 Closing=1 Logging=0 Finishing=0 ReqPerSec=10.752137 BytesPerReq=58910 BytesPerSec=633416.205128 Accesses=5032

./check_apachestatus_auto.pl -H xx.xx.xx.xxx -w 240 -c 100
APACHE OK - 0.070 sec. response time, Busy/Idle 25/224, open 1671/1920, ReqPerSec 9.7, BytesPerReq 54922, BytesPerSec 531443|Idle=224 Busy=25 OpenSlots=1671 Slots=1920 Starting=0 Reading=0 Sending=13 Keepalive=9 DNS=0 Closing=3 Logging=0 Finishing=0 ReqPerSec=9.676230 BytesPerReq=54922 BytesPerSec=531443.409836 Accesses=2361

The above should give me a warning when there are less than 240 available.

Thanks,

[sreinhardt]

I would agree it should respond as warning if there are less than 200 open or critical if less than 100 open slots. However your output is showing OpenSlots=1671, which would mean there are far more than enough for an OK status. Maybe try checking for -w 1700

[peakyblinder]

Hi,

Still doesn't work, no matter what value I use.

When setting warning to 1700, critical to 1800 I get the message about "Check warn and crit!"
./check_apachestatus_auto.pl -H xx.xx.xx.xxx -w 1700 -c 1800
Check warn and crit!

The above is running against a Windows Apache. The below is running against AIX;

./check_apachestatus_auto.pl -H xx.xx.xx.xxx -w 99 -c 10
APACHE OK - 0.064 sec. response time, Busy/Idle 1/99, open 300/400, ReqPerSec 0.0, BytesPerReq 1024, BytesPerSec 28|Idle=99 Busy=1 OpenSlots=300 Slots=400 Starting=0 Reading=0 Sending=1 Keepalive=0 DNS=0 Closing=0 Logging=0 Finishing=0 ReqPerSec=0.027778 BytesPerReq=1024 BytesPerSec=28.444444 Accesses=1

Beginning to think that these are apache server-status plugins are giving false positives.

Thanks,

[slansing]

That, or it just cant read Apache running on a Windows server properly. Have you looked into any other *windows* specific apache check plugins?

[peakyblinder]

Hi,

Yeah, they all seem to suffer from the same problem.

Thanks,

[tmcdonald]

If you can get a similar check to work against a Linux Apache server then I would bet it's a Windows problem. I know Windows ports of Linux services need some workarounds to get them working, and this could break things.