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MK Livestatus

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Livestatus is a tool to access the host and service status of your Nagios server

Current Version

Last Release Date

March 20, 2017

Compatible With

  • Nagios 3.x
  • Nagios 4.x

Owner

Ulf

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Livestatus is a tool to access the host and service status of your Nagios server (https://mathias-kettner.de/checkmk_livestatus.html) Get mk-livestatus from https://mathias-kettner.de/download/mk-livestatus-1.2.8p18.tar.gz # cd /tmp # tar xzf mk-livestatus-1.2.8p18.tar.gz # cd mk-livestatus-1.2.8p18 # ./configure --with-nagios4 # make # make install If you are using the Nagios XI VM based on Cent OS 6 the "make" command will fail: g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -g -O2 -DNAGIOS4 -std=c++11 -fPIC -g -O2 -MT livestatus_so-AndingFilter.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/livestatus_so-AndingFilter.Tpo -c -o livestatus_so-AndingFilter.o `test -f 'AndingFilter.cc' || echo './'`AndingFilter.cc cc1plus: error: unrecognized command line option "-std=c++11" The compiler does not support "-std=c++11", at least gcc 4.7 is required https://gcc.gnu.org/projects/cxx-status.html#cxx11 The solution is to install a newer compiler in a another directory. The scl command is necessary to use the devtoolset-2-binutils, else gcc 4.8 will not work. # cd /etc/yum.repos.d # wget https://people.centos.org/tru/devtools-2/devtools-2.repo # yum --enablerepo=testing-devtools-2-centos-6 install devtoolset-2-gcc devtoolset-2-gcc-c++ devtoolset-2-binutils # export CC=/opt/rh/devtoolset-2/root/usr/bin/gcc # export CPP=/opt/rh/devtoolset-2/root/usr/bin/cpp # export CXX=/opt/rh/devtoolset-2/root/usr/bin/c++ # scl enable devtoolset-2 bash # cd /tmp/mk-livestatus-1.2.8p18 # make # make install Back to the configuration # vi /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg broker_module=/usr/local/lib/mk-livestatus/livestatus.o /usr/local/nagiosxi/var/subsys/livestatus # nagios restart Verify the livestatus broker is working: # echo "GET status" | /usr/local/bin/unixcat /usr/local/nagiosxi/var/subsys/livestatus It is also possible to make livestatus available using a TCP socket using xinetd: service livestatus { type = UNLISTED port = 6557 socket_type = stream protocol = tcp wait = no # limit to 100 connections per second. Disable 3 secs if above. cps = 100 3 # set the number of maximum allowed parallel instances of unixcat. # Please make sure that this values is at least as high as # the number of threads defined with num_client_threads in # etc/mk-livestatus/nagios.cfg instances = 500 # limit the maximum number of simultaneous connections from # one source IP address per_source = 250 # Disable TCP delay, makes connection more responsive flags = NODELAY user = nagios server = /usr/local/bin/unixcat server_args = /usr/local/nagiosxi/var/subsys/livestatus # configure the IP address(es) of your Nagios server here: only_from = Add_here_the_allowed_IPs disable = no } # service xinetd restart Make sure the firewall allows the communiction # vi /etc/sysconfig/iptables # Livestatus -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 6557 -j ACCEPT # service iptables restart # echo "GET status" | netcat -w 20 Nagios-Server 6557
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No UNIX socket
by ahiya@younity.io, November 30, 2019

hi ive just install the plugin on my Nagios core 4.4.3. and it dosnt work. i get "no unix socket" error. i assume the path in "broker_module=/usr/local/lib/mk-livestatus/livestatus.o /usr/local/nagiosxi/var/subsys/livestatus" is incorrect becouse im not using nagiosxi and i dont have folder nagios/var/subsystem/. who can i proceed from here?


Problem with installation in Nagios Core
by ddro90, October 31, 2019

Hi, I have a problem when I try to install it in my server. When I run the make command, I have the following error: g++ -s -fPIC -shared livestatus_so-AndingFilter.o livestatus_so-ClientQueue.o livestatus_so-Column.o livestatus_so-ColumnsColumn.o livestatus_so-CustomVarsExplicitColumn.o livestatus_so-ContactsColumn.o livestatus_so-CustomVarsColumn.o livestatus_so-CustomVarsFilter.o livestatus_so-DoubleColumn.o livestatus_so-DoubleColumnFilter.o livestatus_so-DowntimeOrComment.o livestatus_so-DownCommColumn.o livestatus_so-DynamicColumn.o livestatus_so-EmptyColumn.o livestatus_so-NullColumn.o livestatus_so-Filter.o livestatus_so-GlobalCountersColumn.o livestatus_so-HostContactsColumn.o livestatus_so-HostgroupsColumn.o livestatus_so-HostlistColumn.o livestatus_so-HostlistColumnFilter.o livestatus_so-HostlistStateColumn.o livestatus_so-MetricsColumn.o livestatus_so-HostSpecialIntColumn.o livestatus_so-ServiceSpecialIntColumn.o livestatus_so-InputBuffer.o livestatus_so-IntColumn.o livestatus_so-IntColumnFilter.o livestatus_so-ListColumn.o livestatus_so-ListColumnFilter.o livestatus_so-OffsetDoubleColumn.o livestatus_so-OffsetIntColumn.o livestatus_so-OffsetStringColumn.o livestatus_so-OffsetTimeperiodColumn.o livestatus_so-OringFilter.o livestatus_so-OutputBuffer.o livestatus_so-OffsetTimeColumn.o livestatus_so-TimePointerColumn.o livestatus_so-TimeColumnFilter.o livestatus_so-PerfdataAggregator.o livestatus_so-Query.o livestatus_so-ServiceContactsColumn.o livestatus_so-ServicegroupsColumn.o livestatus_so-ServicelistColumn.o livestatus_so-ServicelistColumnFilter.o livestatus_so-ServicelistStateColumn.o livestatus_so-store_c.o livestatus_so-Store.o livestatus_so-StringColumn.o livestatus_so-StringColumnFilter.o livestatus_so-strutil.o livestatus_so-Table.o livestatus_so-TableColumns.o livestatus_so-StatusSpecialIntColumn.o livestatus_so-HostSpecialDoubleColumn.o livestatus_so-TableCommands.o livestatus_so-TableContacts.o livestatus_so-TableDownComm.o livestatus_so-TableHostgroups.o livestatus_so-ServiceSpecialDoubleColumn.o livestatus_so-TableHosts.o livestatus_so-TableServicegroups.o livestatus_so-TableServices.o livestatus_so-TableStatus.o livestatus_so-LogEntry.o livestatus_so-LogCache.o livestatus_so-Logfile.o livestatus_so-TableStateHistory.o livestatus_so-TableLog.o livestatus_so-TableTimeperiods.o livestatus_so-TableContactgroups.o livestatus_so-ContactgroupsMemberColumn.o livestatus_so-OffsetStringMacroColumn.o livestatus_so-OffsetStringServiceMacroColumn.o livestatus_so-OffsetStringHostMacroColumn.o livestatus_so-StatsColumn.o livestatus_so-IntAggregator.o livestatus_so-CountAggregator.o livestatus_so-DoubleAggregator.o livestatus_so-AttributelistColumn.o livestatus_so-AttributelistFilter.o livestatus_so-BlobColumn.o livestatus_so-HostFileColumn.o livestatus_so-global_counters.o livestatus_so-module.o livestatus_so-logger.o livestatus_so-waittriggers.o livestatus_so-TimeperiodsCache.o livestatus_so-pnp4nagios.o livestatus_so-mk_inventory.o livestatus_so-ContactgroupsColumn.o livestatus_so-CustomTimeperiodColumn.o livestatus_so-HostServiceState.o livestatus_so-opids.o livestatus_so-auth.o -o livestatus.o -lpthread -static-libstdc++ /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lstdc++ collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status My distribution server is CentOS 8 and I have installed the properly libraries: [root@nagios mk-livestatus-1.2.8p18]# rpm -qa | grep libstdc libstdc++-devel-8.2.1-3.5.el8.x86_64 libstdc++-8.2.1-3.5.el8.x86_64 So, what's wrong? Can I change the Makefile to change this commad without -static-libstdc++ option? Thanks!


For installation with NagiosXI on CentOS7
by larrydhelms, October 31, 2017

$ yum install centos-release-scl $ yum install devtoolset-4 $ export CC=/opt/rh/devtoolset-4/root/usr/bin/gcc $ export CPP=/opt/rh/devtoolset-4/root/usr/bin/cpp $ export CXX=/opt/rh/devtoolset-4/root/usr/bin/c++ $ scl enable devtoolset-4 bash $ cd /tmp/mk-livestatus-1.2.8p18 $ make $ make install


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