It’s not really doing anything more, except doing the status on all of the units with one command. If units were to be added/removed, the command would stay the same.
But I wouldn’t call this monitoring, it’s more like a health check, you get a binary (good/bad). Monitoring would expect metrics IMO, and even health checks you’d want to do on the WebUI, REST server, LDAP, KDC to see if they are responding in an expected way. 

The service can be up (according to systems or ipactl) but still produce garbage.

John

On 27 May 2019, at 10:25, Alex Corcoles via FreeIPA-users <freeipa-users@lists.fedorahosted.org> wrote:

The output of ipactl looks very similar to systemctl status. Is it doing much more than that? I'm already monitoring systemd failed units so I wonder if it's running checking ipactl.

On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 1:33 PM Neal Harrington via FreeIPA-users <freeipa-users@lists.fedorahosted.org> wrote:
Hi Tony,

I'm monitoring using the following userparameter (basically run "ipactl status" and grep out lines which are known good so only errors are returned):

UserParameter=ipa.status,sudo /usr/sbin/ipactl status 2>&1 | egrep -v "(INFO\: The ipactl command was successful$|: RUNNING$)"

ipactl needs root access so I have a file in /etc/sudoers.d/zabbix with these lines to allow the zabbix user to sudo the ipactl status command only without a password:

## Allow zabix to query ipa status
Defaults:zabbix !requiretty
zabbix ALL = (root) NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/ipactl status

The final challenge I had was selinux which I had to create a custom rule for (but most people seem to just disable selinux).


Then just create a trigger to alert if the returned value contains any characters. eg this matches on any char apart from whitespace:
{Custom Template IPA Server:ipa.status.regexp([^\s],1200)}=1

If anyone else has a better way to do this I'd be interested to hear it.

Regards,
Neal.




From: Tony Brian Albers via FreeIPA-users <freeipa-users@lists.fedorahosted.org>
Sent: 24 August 2018 10:50
To: freeipa-users@lists.fedorahosted.org
Cc: Tony Brian Albers
Subject: [Freeipa-users] zabbix for monitoring FreeIPA server?
 
Hi guys,

Anyone got this working?

And if so, how did you do it?

I know I can monitor the components separately, but if you know of
anything that can do it easier I'd be happy to know about it.

/tony
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