nagios check_dns / check_ip example

Need to monitor an IP address / DNS entry with Nagios? Nagios has a plugin called check_dns just for that.

The check commands are defined in this file: `/etc/nagios-plugins/config/dns.cfg`

# ‘check_dns’ command definition
define command{
command_name check_dns
command_line /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_dns -H www.google.com -s ‘$HOSTADDRESS$’
}

# ‘check_dig’ command definition
define command{
command_name check_dig
command_line /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_dig -H ‘$HOSTADDRESS$’ -l ‘$ARG1$’
}

here is an alternate version I wrote to check the IP of a host, I could have used `check_ip` because I don’t think that command is taken, but instead I used `my_check_dns`:

#my_check_dns command, checks to make sure a hostname resolved to a specified IP address:

define command {
command_name my_check_dns
command_line /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_dns -H $ARG1$ -a $ARG2$
}

this is how it would be implemented in a service:

define service{
use generic-service ; Name of service template to use
host_name mysite.com
service_description check dns
check_command my_check_dns!www.mysite.com!123.456.78.90
}

Man Page:

check_dns v1.4.14 (nagios-plugins 1.4.14)
Copyright (c) 1999 Ethan Galstad
Copyright (c) 2000-2008 Nagios Plugin Development Team

This plugin uses the nslookup program to obtain the IP address for the given host/domain query.
An optional DNS server to use may be specified.
If no DNS server is specified, the default server(s) specified in /etc/resolv.conf will be used.

Usage:check_dns -H host [-s server] [-a expected-address] [-A] [-t timeout] [-w warn] [-c crit]

Options:
-h, –help
Print detailed help screen
-V, –version
Print version information
-H, –hostname=HOST
The name or address you want to query
-s, –server=HOST
Optional DNS server you want to use for the lookup
-a, –expected-address=IP-ADDRESS|HOST
Optional IP-ADDRESS you expect the DNS server to return. HOST must end with
a dot (.). This option can be repeated multiple times (Returns OK if any
value match). If multiple addresses are returned at once, you have to match
the whole string of addresses separated with commas (sorted alphabetically).
-A, –expect-authority
Optionally expect the DNS server to be authoritative for the lookup
-w, –warning=seconds
Return warning if elapsed time exceeds value. Default off
-c, –critical=seconds
Return critical if elapsed time exceeds value. Default off
-t, –timeout=INTEGER
Seconds before connection times out (default: 10)

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