Whenever you have a ZenPack ready to get posted, email me directly and I'll work with you to get it listed.

Thanks,

Matt Ray

Zenoss Community Manager

unixsamurai wrote:

 

One thing I did encounter was, we do alot of virtual name based web hosting, and when I tried to add a "new" hostname for SSL cert checking it wouldn't add it, since we already monitor that host's IP under another hostname.

This sounds like an interesting problem.  I had been thinking about that as well since I am using some old Raq550's at home with vhost setups.  I had a thought about this, and have been thinking that there should be a special class that can allow duplicate IP addresses that does nothing by default.  That way we can work on a vhost by vhost basis.

Perhaps even a Psudeo class that has NO IP addresses at all allowed, or only has 127.0.0.1 and will only work with zencommand against the ${here/id} and other non-IP address variables..

Unfortunately either of these options would require changes of the main code itself.  A little ZenPack is not going to cut it here I dont think..  (at least I cannot think of an easy way to do it but I am not a real Python coder, I just fake it in forums..    )

I am going to have to think about this for a bit..

unixsamurai wrote:

 

Yeah man, get this ZenPack published, it's freaking awesome. I think there'd be a ton of people waiting for this type of feature.

 

Now what type of ZenPack do we do next ;-)

Grin, I am starting a ZenPack for Cyclades ACS32's as an addendum to the existing ZenPack.  I am going to show Amp use per bus,  tempature per power bus and PDU outlet statuses.  Still trying to figure out how to split a !@#$! string reply into an array correctly and input the values into a table so that a template can graph this..

Heh after that, assuming I dont get a new request,  I am continuing writing my IWILLFEARNOEVIL-SMI for Linux server applications.  Trapping defined for events for the standard stuff you find on LAMP servers.  (apache, sql, mail queues, etc)  I have not been able to find a decent generic trap set anywhere, so I am writing one under my IANA OID number, and just releasing it to the world for anyone who wants standardization on event traps (I REALLY hate seeing /unknown).  Heheh...

The basic skeleton for what I am doing is in the forums on my website http://code01.iwillfearnoevil.com  If you check it out, keep in mind that my domain is in my garage on a cable modem and I do a lot of weird stuff on my LAN, so it might be a little slow.

If you want to use the current parts of the SMI that have been posted, you are more than welcome to.  Otherwise, the actual traps for what is defined in SMI I can do some quick and dirty stuff adhoc if needed before I finish the MIB.

The ZenPack is now available here: Domain/SSL Certificate Expiration Monitor  I made a small fix for the path issues, so there's now a 1.0.5 version available that no longer requires modifying the path in the data source.  The key to getting paths within the ZenPack is in this changeset: http://zenpacks.zenoss.org/trac-zenpacks/changeset/438

Thanks again!

Matt Ray

Zenoss Community Manager

bautistaj wrote:

 

Hi Matt and everyone!

 

I installed this ZenPack and it seems to be working fine for all the domains except .CA (we are in Canada).

I dont know too much about coding but seeing the code of the check_domain.sh i found :

 

elif [ "${TLDTYPE}"  == "uk" ];
    then
        ${WHOIS} -h "whois.nic.uk" "${1}" > ${WHOIS_TMP}

 

so, I added:

 

elif [ "${TLDTYPE}"  == "ca" ];
    then
        ${WHOIS} -h "whois.cira.ca" "${1}" > ${WHOIS_TMP}

 

and saved it. Shoud I compile the file? which compiler? can one of you guys please do it for me or let me know what are the steps?

there is something else to do?

 

Thanks!

 

Jose

I think that it should work for you just fine now that you edited the script.  Are you getting unexpected results?  If things are goofy, I can do some more debugging, but what you did should be fine..

I forgot to mentioned that I got an error with co.uk domains: amazon.co.uk

Domain                                  Registrar            Status   Expires     Days Left
--------------------------------------- -------------------- -------- ----------- ---------
+ 12 - 3")syntax error: invalid arithmetic operator (error token is "
   0    Amazon.com  Expiring 05-Dec-2012

Thank you!!

Jose

Well I figured out the problem with the .co.uk portion easily enough.  Recent versions of jwhois have a bug (sorry, dont use it anymore if you are monitoring .uk domains)

chubbard@guyver-barn ~ $jwhois -h "whois.nic.uk" theregsiter.co.uk
[Querying whois.nic.uk]
[Unable to connect to remote host]

This is an easy fix, change line 118 to be active (remove the #) and put a # in front of the jwhois declaration on line 120 (comment it out).

The .ca domain was a bit more of a pain, since once again the date formats are different than elsewhere.  You did great in making the first change that you did.  The other parts were to allow the script to see the registrar's name, and find out where the expiration date is at.  I have taken care of those, and will be updating the ZenPack to by default use a regular whois command, and it will now fully support the .ca domains.  In the meantime, I am attaching the check_domain.sh script for you here so you dont have to wait.  Just overwrite (or move) the old copy, and put this one in its place..

I just ran some examples, and I saw that with some .CA domains, the calculation of the date of expiration is not correct :

[zenoss@MOP-ESM-MON-02 libexec]$ ./check_domain.sh -x 30 -d firepay.ca

Domain                                  Registrar            Status   Expires     Days Left
--------------------------------------- -------------------- -------- ----------- ---------
firepay.ca                              Tucows.com Co.       Expiring 18-02-2011   3   

[zenoss@MOP-ESM-MON-02 libexec]$ ./check_domain.sh -x 30 -d optimalpayments.ca

Domain                                  Registrar            Status   Expires     Days Left
--------------------------------------- -------------------- -------- ----------- ---------
optimalpayments.ca                      Tucows.com Co.       Expiring 20-01-2011   5   

[zenoss@MOP-ESM-MON-02 libexec]$ ./check_domain.sh -x 30 -d tradegard.ca

Domain                                  Registrar            Status   Expires     Days Left
--------------------------------------- -------------------- -------- ----------- ---------
tradegard.ca                            Tucows.com Co.      Expired  07-01-2011   -8

and other example :

[zenoss@MOP-ESM-MON-02 libexec]$ ./check_domain.sh -x 30 -d yahoo.ca

Domain                                  Registrar            Status   Expires     Days Left
--------------------------------------- -------------------- -------- ----------- ---------
yahoo.ca                                Webnames.ca Inc.     Valid    21-09-2012  371

From and including: Wednesday, December 15, 2010
To, but not including : Friday, September 21, 2012

It is 646 days from the start date to the end date, but not including the end date

Or 1 year, 9 months, 6 days excluding the end date

And with co.uk, I'm still having issues

[root@MOP-ESM-MON-02 libexec]# /opt/zenoss/libexec/check_domain.sh -x 30 -d amazon.co.uk

Domain                                  Registrar            Status   Expires     Days Left
--------------------------------------- -------------------- -------- ----------- ---------
+ 12 - 3")syntax error: invalid arithmetic operator (error token is "
   0    Amazon.com  Expiring 05-Dec-2012

Thanks for all your help!

Jose