Question

I want to set Nagios (on my Debian) to verify a SharePoint server is up. I already tried to use cURL but it didn’t worked for some issue that I don’t know so I decided to change the way I’ll verify that service.

It’s simple in theory, I just have to make a script to send an request (http or https, doesn’t matter) and check the response, if is 200 for successful or 40x if not (ok at this point).

So I have to use telnet or any ftp service to do that or I can use another feature/tool for that.

With telnet I’am having problem with 400 error. SharePoint returns this error when server is up or down, so I don’t work for me.

Any ideas??

Answer 1

I done my own way to check if SharePoint is UP or DOWN. Please pay attention that this script just checks the service status, nothing more like user permissions or whatever.

Perl script:

#!/usr/bin/env perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use Getopt::Long qw(:config no_ignore_case_always auto_version);

GetOptions ('h=s' => \my $h);

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$ua->agent('Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 95)');

my $req = $ua->get('http://' . $h);

my $retorno = '';

if ($req->is_success) 
{
    $retorno = $req->content;
}
else
{
    $retorno = $req->status_line;
}

if ($retorno eq "401 Unauthorized")
{ 
    print "OK: SharePoint service at " . $h . " server is UP.";
    exit 0;
}
else
{
    print "CRITICAL: SharePoint service at " . $h . " server is DOWN.";
    exit 2;
}

In case you got this exception when you run the script:

Can’t locate LWP/UserAgent.pm in @INC

this article may help you as it helped me:

http://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=274

So in Nagios commands.cfg file you’ll declare the command this way:

command_line /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_sharepoint.pl -h $HOSTADDRESS$

Where $HOSTADDRESS is the host IP variable in Nagios scope.

Remember to chmod +x on the file. I know you will…