Define custom checks¶

openITCOCKPIT Monitoring Agent is 100% compatible to the Monitoring Plugins Development Guidelines So you can use all monitoring plugins that work with: Naemon, Nagios, Shinken, Icinga 1 and Sensu

The idea behind custom checks is to provide an easy method to get a deeper monitoring of specialized services like Database Servers etc.

Set path to customchecks.ini¶

By default the Agent will search for an customchecks.ini in the default directory.

You can change the location in the config.ini

# Remote Plugin Execution
# Path to config will where custom checks can be defined
# Comment to use the default value
#
# Linux: /etc/openitcockpit-agent/customchecks.ini
# Windows: C:\Program Files\it-novum\openitcockpit-agent\customchecks.ini
# macOS: /Applications/openitcockpit-agent/customchecks.ini
customchecks = /etc/openitcockpit-agent/customchecks.ini

Define custom checks¶

The default customchecks.ini provides a huge variety of how to define custom checks on Linux, macOS and Windows. It covers Bash-Scripts, Powershell-Scripts and Binaries.

Add custom checks to the monitoring¶

Open the openITCOCKPIT web interface and navigate to openITCOCKPIT Agent -> Agents Overview -> Pull / Push and select Edit from the drop down menu. Follow the instructions and select all custom checks at the step Create services