Hello there,
I have been thoroughly reading the checkmk documentation which is great. However, I am struggling with creating a special agent. The goal is to use the python request library to query various api. For example, a CheckPoint Security Management appliance. I was wondering if you could help get me started for example, how to create a very basic special agent?
Any help would be much appreciated, thanks.
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Hi Robert,
a special agent consists of two parts minimal.
First part is the special agent producing and formatting the raw data.
The second part is the check who is then transforming your data to check results.
A good and small example is the Fritzbox routers. agent_fritzbox
The check for the output of this special agent is then the “fritz” check.
Best regards
Andreas
PS: new location for all CheckMK questions and requests - https://forum.checkmk.com
Am Fr., 6. Dez. 2019 um 17:47 Uhr schrieb Robert Knox robk86@hotmail.co.uk:
Hello there,
I have been thoroughly reading the checkmk documentation which is great. However, I am struggling with creating a special agent. The goal is to use the python request library to query various api. For example, a CheckPoint Security Management appliance. I was wondering if you could help get me started for example, how to create a very basic special agent?
Any help would be much appreciated, thanks.
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Hi Andreas,
That’s great, thanks for the guidance. I will look into this today.
Thanks
Robert
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On 8 Dec 2019, at 19:49, Andreas Döhler andreas.doehler@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Robert,
a special agent consists of two parts minimal.
First part is the special agent producing and formatting the raw data.
The second part is the check who is then transforming your data to check results.
A good and small example is the Fritzbox routers. agent_fritzbox
The check for the output of this special agent is then the “fritz” check.
Best regards
Andreas
PS: new location for all CheckMK questions and requests -
https://forum.checkmk.com
Am Fr., 6. Dez. 2019 um 17:47 Uhr schrieb Robert Knox robk86@hotmail.co.uk:
Hello there,
I have been thoroughly reading the checkmk documentation which is great. However, I am struggling with creating a special agent. The goal is to use the python request library to query various api. For example, a CheckPoint Security Management appliance. I was
wondering if you could help get me started for example, how to create a very basic special agent?Any help would be much appreciated, thanks.
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Hi Andreas,
I have created a special agent along with a check and places inside the following locations:
Local/share/check_mk/agents/special
Local/share/check_mk/checks
However, I cannot see this in the webgui wato under host and service parameters->datasource programs
How do I enable it and how do I tell a host to use it?
Thanks
Robert
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On 8 Dec 2019, at 19:49, Andreas Döhler andreas.doehler@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Robert,
a special agent consists of two parts minimal.
First part is the special agent producing and formatting the raw data.
The second part is the check who is then transforming your data to check results.
A good and small example is the Fritzbox routers. agent_fritzbox
The check for the output of this special agent is then the “fritz” check.
Best regards
Andreas
PS: new location for all CheckMK questions and requests -
https://forum.checkmk.com
Am Fr., 6. Dez. 2019 um 17:47 Uhr schrieb Robert Knox robk86@hotmail.co.uk:
Hello there,
I have been thoroughly reading the checkmk documentation which is great. However, I am struggling with creating a special agent. The goal is to use the python request library to query various api. For example, a CheckPoint Security Management appliance. I was
wondering if you could help get me started for example, how to create a very basic special agent?Any help would be much appreciated, thanks.
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Hi Andreas,
I have created a special agent along with a check and places inside the
following locations:
Local/share/check_mk/agents/special
Local/share/check_mk/checksHowever, I cannot see this in the webgui wato under host and service
parameters->datasource programs
How do I enable it and how do I tell a host to use it?
Thanks
Robert
Sent from my iPhone
Hi Robert,
a special agent consists of two parts minimal.
First part is the special agent producing and formatting the raw data.
The second part is the check who is then transforming your data to check
results.
A good and small example is the Fritzbox routers. agent_fritzbox
The check for the output of this special agent is then the "fritz" check.Best regards
AndreasPS: new location for all CheckMK questions and requests -
https://forum.checkmk.com
<robk86@hotmail.co.uk<mailto:robk86@hotmail.co.uk>>:
Hello there,
I have been thoroughly reading the checkmk documentation which is great.
However, I am struggling with creating a special agent. The goal is to use
the python request library to query various api. For example, a CheckPoint
Security Management appliance. I was wondering if you could help get me
started for example, how to create a very basic special agent?
This is what the "Individual program call instead of agent access" is for I
think. Just put in /path/to/your/program and maybe some arguments like
hostname or what have you.
Any help would be much appreciated, thanks.
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On Wednesday, 11 December 2019 4:31:51 AM AEDT Robert Knox wrote:
On 8 Dec 2019, at 19:49, Andreas Döhler <andreas.doehler@gmail.com> wrote:
Am Fr., 6. Dez. 2019 um 17:47 Uhr schrieb Robert Knox
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Richard is right.
I would then do the next steps on the command line, after configuring the “Individual program call instead of agent access”.
Do a “cmk --debug -vvI hostname” to check if something can be get from your target host.
Then you will see if this data is usable for your own checks.
Best regards
Andreas
Am Mi., 11. Dez. 2019 um 04:53 Uhr schrieb Richard James Salts checkmk@spectralmud.org:
On Wednesday, 11 December 2019 4:31:51 AM AEDT Robert Knox wrote:
Hi Andreas,
I have created a special agent along with a check and places inside the
following locations:
Local/share/check_mk/agents/special
Local/share/check_mk/checks
However, I cannot see this in the webgui wato under host and service
parameters->datasource programs
How do I enable it and how do I tell a host to use it?
Thanks
Robert
Sent from my iPhone
On 8 Dec 2019, at 19:49, Andreas Döhler andreas.doehler@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Robert,
a special agent consists of two parts minimal.
First part is the special agent producing and formatting the raw data.
The second part is the check who is then transforming your data to check
results.
A good and small example is the Fritzbox routers. agent_fritzbox
The check for the output of this special agent is then the “fritz” check.
Best regards
Andreas
PS: new location for all CheckMK questions and requests -
Am Fr., 6. Dez. 2019 um 17:47 Uhr schrieb Robert Knox >
<robk86@hotmail.co.ukmailto:robk86@hotmail.co.uk>:Hello there,
I have been thoroughly reading the checkmk documentation which is great.
However, I am struggling with creating a special agent. The goal is to use
the python request library to query various api. For example, a CheckPoint
Security Management appliance. I was wondering if you could help get me
started for example, how to create a very basic special agent?
This is what the “Individual program call instead of agent access” is for I
think. Just put in /path/to/your/program and maybe some arguments like
hostname or what have you.
Any help would be much appreciated, thanks.
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