simple-monitor-alert 0.2.4

A simple monitor with alerts for Unix/Linux under the KISS philosophy. Keep It Simple, Stupid!

Simple Monitor Alert

A simple monitor with alerts for Unix/Linux under the KISS philosophy. Keep It Simple, Stupid!

• Light: Only ~7MiB of RAM. (That’s great for your raspberry pi!)

• Very easy to use and understand.

• Write your own monitors in any language (Bash, Python, Perl, JS, Ruby, PHP, C, C++…).

• Awesome features: send alerts once or several times, graphic peak…

• No server required. You can run as a daemon or using crond.

• Easy to debug and test.

• Multiple ways to send alerts: email, telegram…

• Easy configuration in a single file.

Available monitors:

• Hard disks: SMART, temperature, free space, Mdadm (linux RAID).

• System: CPU usage, free RAM, free SWAP, monitorize services (daemons), sensors, [time]…

• Web: load time, return code, content in page.

• Network: ping, [port, dynamic ip].

• Others: [Log monitor, google cloud print]

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3-Step Quick Start Guide

1. Install it from Pypi:

   $ sudo pip install simple-monitor-alert

2. Edit /etc/simple-monitor-alert/sma.ini and defines the recipient of the alerts:

   [mail]
   to = [e-mail]

3. Execute sma:

   # Just once:
   $ sma
   # or... Run as a service (daemon)
   $ sma service
   # or... Run usign system service:
   $ sudo systemctl start sma

And yes, that’s it!

5 minutes guide

Files and directories:

• /etc/simple-monitor-alert/sma.ini (file): all-in-one config file. Configure monitors and alerts methods.

• /etc/simple-monitor-alert/monitors-available (directory): All monitors available for usage. You can create monitors here.

• /etc/simple-monitor-alert/monitors-enabled (directory): All monitors that are here are activated.

• /etc/simple-monitor-alert/alerts (directory): Alerts methods available. You need to configure them in sma.ini.

Enable and disable monitors

All monitors in /etc/simple-monitor-alert/monitors-enabled are enabled. It is recommended that files are symbolic links. To activate a monitor:

$ cd /etc/simple-monitor-alert/monitors-enabled
$ sudo ln -s ../monitors-available/mdadm.sh

To disable:

$ cd /etc/simple-monitor-alert/monitors-enabled
$ rm mdadm.sh # It's safe. mdadm is a symlink.

We recommend you read the beginning of the monitor before activating. Some monitors may require parameters and configure the system. For example:

$ head -n 6 /etc/simple-monitor-alert/monitors-available/service.sh
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Service Status monitor.
# Verify that the service is running.
# It requires a parameter: service name. For example, sshd.
# [service]
# service_status.param = sshd

To pass the parameter you must add the following to sma.ini:

[service]
service_status.param = sshd

To monitor multiple services:

[service]
service_status(sshd).param = sshd
service_status(ntpd).param = ntpd

Debugging

You can test your monitors running them:

$ /etc/simple-monitor-alert/monitors-available/mdadm.sh
mdadm(md0).name = 'Mdadm /dev/md0'
mdadm(md0).expected = 0
mdadm(md0).value = 0

You can also run sma and see the results:

$ sma
2016-05-03 00:28:14,972 - sma - INFO    - Trigger: [success] (mdadm) mdadm(md0). Result: 0 == 0
2016-05-03 00:28:14,990 - sma - INFO    - Trigger: [success] (system) ram. Result: 32.1427 <= 85
2016-05-03 00:28:14,990 - sma - INFO    - Trigger: [success] (system) cpu. Result: 9.57627 <= 80
2016-05-03 00:28:15,156 - sma - WARNING - Trigger: [warning] (hdds) pcnt_use(sdc1). Assertion 98 <= 80 failed.
Extra info: Space: 23G/25G
2016-05-03 00:28:15,157 - sma - WARNING - Trigger: [warning] (hdds) pcnt_use(md0). Assertion 100 <= 80 failed.
Extra info: Space: 5,4T/5,5T

To test the alerts you can use:

$ sma alerts --test

My first monitor

SMA works by checking the output of your monitor script. A monitor has observables. Each observable has 2 major sections: the expected value and the value obtained:

observable1.expected = yes
observable1.value = yes
observable2.expected = yes
observable2.value = no

In this example the first observable is fine and the second is under error. Your program should return something similar. The following example check that a file exists:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
echo "file_exists.expected = yes"
if [ -f "/path/to/file" ]; then value="yes"; else value="no"; fi
echo "file_exists.value = $value"

Output:

$ /etc/simple-monitor-alert/monitors-available/example-1.sh
file_exists.expected = yes
file_exists.value = no

There are more options with monitors, such as obtaining arguments. For more information see the documentation.