melmorabity / nagios-plugin-systemd-service

Nagios plugin to check the status of a systemd service

nagios-plugin-systemd-service

Nagios plugin to check the status of a systemd service.

Authors

Mohamed El Morabity <melmorabity -(at)- fedoraproject.org>

Installation

This plugin requires the utils.sh file provided by the Nagios Plugins project. Such a file is available in the nagios-plugins package provided by RHEL-based Linux distributions. As a result, the plugin should be installed in the same directory (/usr/lib*/nagios/plugins on RHEL-based Linux distributions).

Usage

check_systemd_service.sh <service name>

Examples

$ ./check_systemd_service.sh sshd
OK: service sshd is running

$ sudo systemctl stop sshd
$ ./check_systemd_service.sh sshd
ERROR: service sshd is not running

$ ./check_systemd_service.sh foo
ERROR: service foo doesn't exist