Send Nagios passive check

Description

The Send Nagios passive check action sends passive checks to Nagios.

You can send monitoring information e.g. about start and end processes within your workflow.

It needs the NCSA addon installed on the Nagios server (NSCA is a Linux/Unix daemon allows you to integrate passive alerts and checks from remote machines and applications with Nagios.

Useful for processing security alerts, as well as redundant and distributed Nagios setups.)

More details and setup instructions for the Nagios NSCA addon can be found at the Nagios Passive Checks documentation.

Options

Option Description

Option	Description
Server
Action name	The name of the workflow action.
Host name/IP address	Nagios server name / IP Address
Server port	Nagios server port (default 5667). A value that is not a number is replaced by 5667; a number that is not a valid port (for example 70000) makes the action false.
Password	The password to connect to the Nagios server NSCA (shared between the Nagios server and the client). This field can be set empty when connections without password are allowed.
Connection timeout	Fail after the specified connection timeout in milliseconds (default 5000).
Response Timeout	Fail after the specified response timeout in milliseconds (default 10000).
Sender
Name/ IP host	Define your sender host name / IP Address. When it is empty, the name of the machine that runs the workflow is sent.
Service name	Define the service name used to log the events. When it is empty, `UNDEFINED` is sent.
Encryption mode	Encryption mode for the connection. The available options are None (default) Triple DES XOR
Level	Log level. The available options are Unknown (default) OK Warning Critical
Message	The message to get logged.

Server

Action name

The name of the workflow action.

Host name/IP address

Nagios server name / IP Address

Server port

Nagios server port (default 5667). A value that is not a number is replaced by 5667; a number that is not a valid port (for example 70000) makes the action false.

Password

The password to connect to the Nagios server NSCA (shared between the Nagios server and the client). This field can be set empty when connections without password are allowed.

Connection timeout

Fail after the specified connection timeout in milliseconds (default 5000).

Response Timeout

Fail after the specified response timeout in milliseconds (default 10000).

Sender

Name/ IP host

Define your sender host name / IP Address. When it is empty, the name of the machine that runs the workflow is sent.

Service name

Define the service name used to log the events. When it is empty, UNDEFINED is sent.

Encryption mode

Encryption mode for the connection. The available options are

None (default)
Triple DES
XOR

Level

Log level. The available options are

Unknown (default)
OK
Warning
Critical

Message

The message to get logged.

Result

What this action passes on to the next action. See Action results for how results travel through a workflow.

Result	Value
True	The passive check was sent to the NSCA server, with 0 errors. The action sends the check and closes the connection without waiting for an answer.
False	The number of errors is 1. Host name/IP address or Message is empty, the host name can’t be resolved, Server port is a number that is not a valid port, the server refuses the connection or doesn’t answer it within Connection timeout, or the server doesn’t send its first packet within Response timeout.
Result files	Passed on unchanged.
Result rows	Passed on unchanged.

Result

Value

True

The passive check was sent to the NSCA server, with 0 errors. The action sends the check and closes the connection without waiting for an answer.

False

The number of errors is 1. Host name/IP address or Message is empty, the host name can’t be resolved, Server port is a number that is not a valid port, the server refuses the connection or doesn’t answer it within Connection timeout, or the server doesn’t send its first packet within Response timeout.

Result files

Passed on unchanged.

Result rows

Passed on unchanged.