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Microsoft SQL Server

Prerequisites

Centreon Plugin

Install this plugin on each needed poller:

yum install centreon-plugin-Applications-Databases-Mssql

Username

The username string should not be longer than 32 chararacters. Username must be in the following form: [Servername|Domainname] In order for the plugin to operate correctly, a database user with specific privileges is required. The most simple way is to assign the Nagios-user the role “serveradmin”. As an alternative you can use the sa-User for the database connection. Alas, this opens a serious security hole, as the (cleartext) administrator password can be found in the nagios configuration files Birk Bohne wrote the following script which allows the automated creation of a minimal, yet sufficient privileged monitoring-user.

declare @dbname varchar(255)
declare @check_mssql_health_USER varchar(255)
declare @check_mssql_health_PASS varchar(255)
declare @check_mssql_health_ROLE varchar(255)
declare @source varchar(255)
declare @options varchar(255)
declare @backslash int

/*******************************************************************/
SET @check_mssql_health_USER = '"[Servername|Domainname]\Username"'
SET @check_mssql_health_PASS = 'Password'
SET @check_mssql_health_ROLE = 'Rolename'
/******************************************************************

PLEASE CHANGE THE ABOVE VALUES ACCORDING TO YOUR REQUIREMENTS

- Example for Windows authentication:
  SET @check_mssql_health_USER = '"[Servername|Domainname]\Username"'
  SET @check_mssql_health_ROLE = 'Rolename'

- Example for SQL Server authentication:
  SET @check_mssql_health_USER = 'Username'
  SET @check_mssql_health_PASS = 'Password'
  SET @check_mssql_health_ROLE = 'Rolename'

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It is strongly recommended to use Windows authentication. Otherwise
you will get no reliable results for database usage.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*********** NO NEED TO CHANGE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE *************/

SET @options = 'DEFAULT_DATABASE=MASTER, DEFAULT_LANGUAGE=English'
SET @backslash = (SELECT CHARINDEX('\', @check_mssql_health_USER))
IF @backslash > 0
  BEGIN
    SET @source = ' FROM WINDOWS'
    SET @options = ' WITH ' + @options
  END
ELSE
  BEGIN
    SET @source = ''
    SET @options = ' WITH PASSWORD=''' + @check_mssql_health_PASS + ''',' + @options
  END

PRINT 'create Nagios plugin user ' + @check_mssql_health_USER
EXEC ('CREATE LOGIN ' + @check_mssql_health_USER + @source + @options)
EXEC ('USE MASTER GRANT VIEW SERVER STATE TO ' + @check_mssql_health_USER)
EXEC ('USE MASTER GRANT ALTER trace TO ' + @check_mssql_health_USER)
EXEC ('USE MSDB GRANT SELECT ON sysjobhistory TO ' + @check_mssql_health_USER)
EXEC ('USE MSDB GRANT SELECT ON sysjobschedules TO ' + @check_mssql_health_USER)
EXEC ('USE MSDB GRANT SELECT ON sysjobs TO ' + @check_mssql_health_USER)
PRINT 'User ' + @check_mssql_health_USER + ' created.'
PRINT ''

declare dblist cursor for
  select name from sysdatabases WHERE name NOT IN ('master', 'tempdb', 'msdb') open dblist
    fetch next from dblist into @dbname
    while @@fetch_status = 0 begin
      EXEC ('USE [' + @dbname + '] print ''Grant permissions in the db '' + ''"'' + DB_NAME() + ''"''')
      EXEC ('USE [' + @dbname + '] CREATE ROLE ' + @check_mssql_health_ROLE)
      EXEC ('USE [' + @dbname + '] GRANT EXECUTE TO ' + @check_mssql_health_ROLE)
      EXEC ('USE [' + @dbname + '] GRANT VIEW DATABASE STATE TO ' + @check_mssql_health_ROLE)
      EXEC ('USE [' + @dbname + '] GRANT VIEW DEFINITION TO ' + @check_mssql_health_ROLE)
      EXEC ('USE [' + @dbname + '] CREATE USER ' + @check_mssql_health_USER + ' FOR LOGIN ' + @check_mssql_health_USER)
      EXEC ('USE [' + @dbname + '] EXEC sp_addrolemember ' + @check_mssql_health_ROLE + ' , ' + @check_mssql_health_USER)
      EXEC ('USE [' + @dbname + '] print ''Permissions in the db '' + ''"'' + DB_NAME() + ''" granted.''')
      fetch next from dblist into @dbname
    end
close dblist
deallocate dblist

Please keep in mind that check_mssql_health’s functionality is limited when using SQL Server authentication. This method is strongly discouraged . Normally there is already a Nagios-(Windows-)-user which can be used for the Windows authentication method.

RPM

In order to use this template, the following RPM are needed:

  • freetds-0.82-6.el6.$ARCH.rpm
  • perl-DBD-Sybase-1.10-1.el6.rf.$ARCH.rpm
  • unixODBC-2.2.14-14.el6.$ARCH.rpm
  • unixODBC-libs-2.2.6-15.5.el6.$ARCH.rpm

Configuration of freetds.conf file

The /etc/freetds.conf file have to be modified in order to encrypt the password. To do that :

vi /etc/freetds.conf

Modify line tds 'version = 4.2' to 'tds version = 8.0'. Then remove comment symbol at the beginning of this line.

Centreon Configuration

Create a new MSSQL database server

Go to "Configuration > Hosts" and click "Add". Then, fill the form as shown by the following table :

FieldValue
Host nameName of the host
AliasHost description
IPHost IP Address
Monitored fromMonitoring Poller to use
Host Multiple TemplatesApp-DB-MSSQL-custom

Click "Save" button.

Those services were automatically created for this host:

ServiceDescription
Backup-AgeCheck database backups of the server. This time is given in minutes.
Blocked-ProcessesCheck blocked processes on the server. Service cannot work because of a SQL request It depends of your MS SQL Server version.
Cache-HitratioCheck the 'Data Buffer Cache Hit Ratio' of the server.
Connection-TimeCheck the connection time to the server.
Database-FreeCheck free space of databases on the server.
DeadlocksCheck deadlocks per second of the server.
Failed-JobsCheck failed jobs of the server.
PingMonitor host response time
TransactionsCheck transactions per second of the server.

Host Macro Configuration

The following macros must be configured on host:

MacroDescriptionDefault valueExample
MSSQLUSERNAMEthe MSSQL userUSERNAMEroot
MSSQLPASSWORDthe MSSQL passwordPASSWORDp@ssw0rd
MSSQLPORTPort to connect to database14331433
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