My first ever icinga plugin
Icinga2 is a Monitoring Application. Its main purpose is to monitor services of specified hosts. You either see the errors on the Webpage or you receive a small mail with the error message, if configured. Icinga provides plugins like ping, ssh, diskspace and many more for those monitoring tasks, but you can create plugins as well. Plugins can be scripts (Shell, Python, Perl, Ruby, PHP, etc.) or compiled binaries (C, C++, Go). I really was curious about writing my own icinga2 plugin and here it is. Mine is completely written in Shell and solely tested on my QNAP TS-212 NAS. […]