check_rss

First version taken from http://john.wesorick.com/2011/10/nagios-plugin-checkrss.html

Added

• Support for empty feed
• global clean up, pylint and pep8 almost silent

Usage

Pick a rss feed from your provider :

• Amazon - http://status.aws.amazon.com/
• Google - http://www.google.com/appsstatus

Copy check_rss.py into your plugins directory '$USER1$' in /etc/nagios/private/resource.cfg

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Amazon

Example : check_rss.py -T 1 http://status.aws.amazon.com/rss/s3-us-west-2.rss

Get service list from : curl -s http://status.aws.amazon.com | grep rss | cut -d '"' -f 4

 define command{
     command_name  check_aws_status
     command_line  $USER1$/check_rss.py -H http://status.aws.amazon.com/rss/$ARG1$.rss -T $ARG2
  }

 define service{
      use                   generic-service
      service_description   status s3-us-west-2
      check_command         check_aws_status!s3-us-west-2!1
      host_name             localhost
  }

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Google apps

 define command{
     command_name  check_google_apps_status
     command_line  $USER1$/check_rss.py -H http://www.google.com/appsstatus/rss/en -T $ARG1
 }

 define service{
     use                   generic-service
     service_description   google apps status
     check_command         check_google_apps_status!1
     host_name             localhost
}