nagios-sip-plugin

A plugin for Nagios for checking the status of a SIP server.

Features

• SIP UDP, TCP and TLS transport protocols.
• Customizable parameters (From URI, Request URI, server address, local UDP port, timeout internal).
• The replied status code can be matched against an expected value to be considered as valid.

Documentation

The plugin sends an OPTIONS and parses the response status code (or triggers a timeout error).

Return values

As any Nagios plugin it must behave according to Nagios API:

OK status

The plugin returns 0 value in three cases:

• -c (expected status code) is not set and the server replies any response.
• -c is set to a specific value (i.e. "200") and the server replies the same status code.
• -c is set to a list of values (i.e. "100,200") the server replies to the last code.

It also prints to stdout a string to be parsed by Nagios:

OK:status code = 200

WARNING status

The plugin returns 1 value in case -c is set and the response code doesn't match its value.

It also prints to stdout:

WARNING:Received a 403 but 200 was required

CRITICAL status

The plugin returns 2 value in the following cases:

• No response at all is received from the server in the configured timeout interval (-T parameter)
• The TCP connection failed.
• An ICMP "port unreachable" message has been received in SIP UDP.
• Error resolving the server IP (when a hostname is used).
• TLS verification error when -vt parameter is set and there is not a valid PEM file in the given CA path (-ca parameter).
• Other TLS errors.

It also prints to stdout (depending on the exact error):

CRITICAL:Timeout receiving the response via UDP (Timeout::Error: execution expired)
CRITICAL:Couldn't get the server address 'not-found.org' (SocketError: getaddrinfo: Name or service not known)
CRITICAL:Timeout when connecting the server via TCP (Timeout::Error: execution expired)
...

Commandline options

~$ ./nagios-sip-plugin.rb --help

Usage mode:    nagios-sip-plugin.rb [OPTIONS]

  OPTIONS:
    -t (tcp|udp)     :    Protocol to use (default 'udp').
    -s SERVER_IP     :    IP or domain of the server (required).
    -p SERVER_PORT   :    Port of the server (default '5060').
    -lp LOCAL_PORT   :    Local port from which UDP request will be sent. Just valid for SIP UDP (default random).
    -r REQUEST_URI   :    Request URI (default 'sip:ping@SERVER_IP:SERVER_PORT').
    -f FROM_URI      :    From URI (default 'sip:nagios@SERVER_IP').
    -c SIP_CODE(s)   :    Expected status code (i.e: '200'). For multiple codes use comma delimited list. (i.e: '200,300'). If null then any code is valid.
    -T SECONDS       :    Timeout in seconds (default '2').
    -vt              :    Verify server's TLS certificate when using SIP TLS (default false).
    -ca CA_PATH      :    Directory with public PEM files for validating server's TLS certificate (default '/etc/ssl/certs/').
    -D               :    Full response debug Information (default false).

  Homepage:
    https://github.com/ibc/nagios-sip-plugin

Usage example

~$ nagios-sip-plugin.rb -t udp -s 9.9.9.9 -p 5060 -lp 15060 -r "sip:9999@myserver.org" -f "sip:nagios@myserver.org" -c 200 -T 3

~$ nagios-sip-plugin.rb -t tcp -s 9.9.9.9 -p 6060

Dependencies

• Ruby 1.8 or 1.9.

TODO

• Add retransmissions mechanism for SIP UDP transport.