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Skype 2015

Prerequisites​

Centreon Plugin​

Install this plugin on each needed poller:

yum install centreon-plugin-Applications-Skype-2015-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.$ARCH
  • perl-DBD-Sybase-1.10-1.el6.rf.$ARCH
  • unixODBC-2.2.14-14.el6.$ARCH
  • unixODBC-devel-2.2.14-14.el6.$ARCH

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 Lync MSSQL instance​

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-Skype-2015-Mssql-custom

Click "Save" button.

Host Macro Configuration​

The following macros must be configured on host:

MacroDescriptionDefault value
MSSQLUSERNAMEMSSQL username
MSSQLPASSWORDMSSQL password
MSSQLPORTPort Of the MSSQL instance (need to check in the SQL Studio if dynamic)