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Check_MK is an extension to the Nagios monitoring system that allows creating rule-based configuration using Python and offloading work from the Nagios core to make it scale better, allowing more systems to be monitored from a single Nagios server.

is a comprehensive, open-source addon for the monitoring software . The extension is offloading work from the Nagios core to make it scale better, allowing more systems to be monitored from a single Nagios server. You can integrate into your existing Nagios/Icinga environment.

simplifies the configuration and makes monitoring with Nagios much more efficient.

is fully open source and available under the terms of the GNU GPL.

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How can I implement single sign on capability with Check_MK?

I am working on a dashboard type website. We have a login page implemented in php that authenticates against an LDAP server. We also have a Check_MK page that has its own login dialog that authenticates against the same LDAP server. I would like for…
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Disabling notifications for a host in Check_MK

I'm losing my mind trying to disable notifications for a specific host in Check_MK. For example, I want the host to be monitored - show up on the network topology and be able to see the problems on the host via the Check_MK views, but I don't want…
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Get host status by CheckMK Web-API

I'm trying to get the status of a host with the CheckMK WebAPI. Can someone point me in the right direction how to get these data? We're currently using CheckMK enterprise 1.4.0. I've…
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Use check_mk_agents on clients to check availability of a service or host

I hope it's ok to ask rather a settings question instead of a coding-question here. We are using CheckMK now to monitor some of our services/ servers. We want to use a bunch of clients (in this case raspberry pis, about 150 of them in total) to…
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Can I circumvent Permissions 0644 for '/run/secrets/cmk_ssh_key' are too open for a key inside a container provided by docker secrets?

https://github.com/docker/compose/issues/9648 This bug of docker compose hinders me to set mode: 600 for a private ssh key mounted inside a container. I would like to run ssh -i /run/secrets/cmk_ssh_key inside the docker container to connect to a…
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"Missing required keys" at Check_MK web API call with CURL in Windows

I am trying to get info's of host xxx in Check_Mk using this docu: Command reference The example call for getting host information looks like this: curl…
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Is it possible limit the execution of a service in a specific time range?

I'm using check_mk to monitor a system, one of the confiured services make use of check_mk_active-http to do HTTP POST to perform a login into a web application every two minutes. I would like to disable this check from 10pm to 6am every day, I mean…
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Check_MK doesn't read local python check on remote host

I'm trying to write a local python check which sends an XML request to a WSDL service and get the response as XML. The script works fine on the server (Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS Server) and prints the results I want. But check_mk (installed on another…
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Can we monitor Jboss using check_mk monitoring tool?

I have installed and configured check_mk tool. Also, configured its agents on both Windows and Linux servers. Now, I can monitor things like CPU Utilization. But i want to check whether JBoss is running on server or not. If no, it will trigger an…
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Monitoring Docker with Check_MK

I've installed both the agent and the piggyback plugin on the Docker Node and created the hosts on check_mk page, with the hostame pointed to the container ID, according to the https://mathias-kettner.com/cms_monitoring_docker.html documentation. I…
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Nagios plugin to read multiple status in text file.

I have a text file (/tmp/status)on the client side which gets regularly updated by a cron job: sdd1:OK sdd2:OK sdd3:WARNING sdd4:CRITICAL I was looking for a plugin in nagios that can read this text file and display it on the nagios web interface…
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Xinetd Bind fails for check_mk serivce

I am trying to start adding our Linux servers to our Check_MK monitoring by installing the agent. I have installed Xinetd and the Check_MK_Agent RPM from my Check_MK server. The Check_MK agent however does not seem to be running. When I do a…
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check_mk downtime scheduled downtime

Is there a proper way to setup a downtime in check_mk? I mean, if I have to restart a host. How should I create a scheduled downtime? It should apply to host? it should be applied to all services? I should be applied both: host and all services?? I…
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python requests error check-mk API

I am trying to add dictionary data to our check-mk Web API wit Python requests, but I keep getting an Error of missing keys: {"result": "Check_MK exception: Missing required key(s): aux_tags, tag_groups", "result_code": 1} Here is my code: import…
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check_mk and hyper-v health

Check_MK provided a script to work with one of their built-in checks to return the health of Hyper-V VMs called hyperv_vms_guestinfos.psi. I can get the script to run with no issues at the shell. Check_mk runs the script (tested via telnet), but…
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