Protocol SFTP

Pack Assets

Templates

The Centreon Pack SFTP brings a host template:

• App-Protocol-Sftp-custom

It brings the following Service Templates:

Service Alias	Service Template	Default	Discovery
Connection	App-Protocol-Sftp-Connection	X
Files-Count	App-Protocol-Sftp-Files-Count
Files-Date	App-Protocol-Sftp-Files-Date
Scenario	App-Protocol-Sftp-Scenario

Collected metrics & status

Connection

Metric name	Description	Unit
connection status	Connection status
connection.time.seconds	Connection time to established the sftp session	s

Files-Count

Metric name	Description	Unit
files.detected.count	Number of files detected

Files-Date

Metric name	Description	Unit
filename#file.mtime.last.seconds	Last modified time	s

Scenario

Metric name	Description	Unit
scenario status	Global scenario status
scenario.execution.time.milliseconds	Scenario execution time	ms
scenario.steps.count	Number of scenario steps
scenario.errors.count	Number of steps failed
step status	Step status
step_label#step.execution.time.milliseconds	Step execution time	ms

Prerequisites

To monitor your SFTP server, you can use pubkey authentication and/or username authentication.

Setup

Online License

1. Install the Centreon package on every Centreon poller expected to monitor Protocol SFTP resources:

yum install centreon-plugin-Applications-Protocol-Sftp

2. On the Centreon web interface, install the Protocol SFTP Centreon Pack on the Configuration > Monitoring Connectors Manager page.

Offline License

1. Install the Centreon package on every Centreon poller expected to monitor Protocol SFTP resources:

yum install centreon-plugin-Applications-Protocol-Sftp

2. Install the Protocol SFTP Centreon Pack RPM on the Centreon Central server:

yum install centreon-pack-applications-protocol-sftp

3. On the Centreon web interface, install the Protocol SFTP Centreon Pack on the Configuration > Monitoring Connectors Manager page.

Configuration

Host

• Log into Centreon and add a new host through Configuration > Hosts.
• Fill the Name, Alias & IP Address / DNS fields according to your Protocol SFTP server settings.
• Apply the App-Protocol-Sftp-custom template to the host.
• Once the template is applied, fill in the corresponding macros. Some macros are mandatory.

Mandatory	Name	Description
	PROTOCOLSFTPUSERNAME	sftp username
	PROTOCOLSFTPPASSWORD	sftp password
	PROTOCOLSFTPEXTRAOPTIONS	Any extra option you may want to add to the command (eg. a --verbose flag)

How to check in the CLI that the configuration is OK and what are the main options for?

Once the plugin is installed, log into your Centreon poller's CLI using the centreon-engine user account (su - centreon-engine) and test the plugin by running the following command:

/usr/lib/centreon/plugins/centreon_protocol_sftp.pl \
    --plugin=apps::protocols::sftp::plugin \
    --mode=connection \
    --hostname='10.0.0.1' \
    --ssh-username='my-username' \
    --ssh-password='my-password' \
    --verbose

The expected command output is shown below:

OK: authentication succeeded - connection time: 1.372s | 'connection.time.seconds'=1.372s;;;0;

All available options for a given mode can be displayed by adding the --help parameter to the command:

/usr/lib/centreon/plugins/centreon_protocol_sftp.pl \
    --plugin=apps::protocols::sftp::plugin \
    --mode=connection \
    --help

All available modes can be displayed by adding the --list-mode parameter to the command:

/usr/lib/centreon/plugins/centreon_protocol_sftp.pl \
    --plugin=apps::protocols::sftp::plugin \
    --list-mode

Troubleshooting

Please find the troubleshooting documentation for plugins in this chapter.