check_rsyslog.sh

Current Version: 1.0
Last Release Date: 2014-01-09

Compatible With: Nagios 2.x
                 Nagios 3.x

Owner: Joerg Heinemann
E-mail: heinemannj66@gmail.com
Website: http://enterprise-log-management-appliance.org

Files: check_rsyslog.sh				The plugin (v1.0)
       LICENSE						GNU GPLv3 License
       README						Documentation
       
Summary:
Nagios plugin to check rsyslog event forwarding

Description:
This plugin will attempt to send syslog events to syslog forwarders and 
checks if any events was received by this job. 
It needs the rsyslog-testtools and ELMA programs installed on your server (see Notes). 

NOTES: 
 - This plugin requires that ELMA package is installed. 
 - ELMA is part of the openSUSE appliance (see above)

Example of command definitions for Nagios 3.x:

define command{
command_name	check_rsyslog
command_line	$USER1$/check_rsyslog.sh -t$HOSTADDRESS$ $ARG1$ $ARG2$ $ARG3$ $ARG4$ $ARG5$ $ARG6$ $ARG7$ $ARG8$
}

