Check the nagios configuration with 'nagios -v'. There are many situations where a nagios configuration can sit broken without anyone noticing.
Supports chroot’ed Nagios environments and can provide data for graphing.
INSTALL
Example:
wget https://raw.github.com/mclarkson/check_nagios_config/master/check_nagios_config chmod +x check_nagios_config mv check_nagios_config /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/
EXAMPLE OUTPUT
WARNING: 1 warnings, 0 errors, 72 hosts, 1430 services. CRITICAL: 0 warnings, 1 errors, 72 hosts, 1430 services. OK: 0 warnings, 0 errors, 72 hosts, 1430 services.
MANUAL PAGE
$ ./check_nagios_config -h
Usage: check_nagios_config [options]
-h : Display this help text.
-c FILE : Location of nagios configuration file, nagios.cfg.
(Default is: /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg)
-n FILE : Location of nagios main executable file, nagios.
(Default is: /usr/sbin/nagios)
-x DIR : Run in a chroot environment based at DIR.
-X FILE : Location of the chroot executable file.
(Default is: /usr/sbin/chroot)
-s : Use sudo to run the command.
-p : Add performance data output for graphing.
-l : Add long output excluding the lines starting with 'Processing'.
-W NUM : Don't alert until NUM warnings have been reached.
(Default is: 0)
-C NUM : Don't alert until NUM errors have been reached.
(Usually zero unless there's a really good reason.)
(Default is: 0)
Example:
Check the configuration, alerting on any errors or warnings that
Nagios reports. Also create performance data for graphing.
./check_nagios_config -p