[SR-Users] [ANNOUNCE]: sipnagios, a Nagios Plugin to check Call Quality in SIP VoIP (compatible with checkmk, etc)

[Antony Stone]

On Wednesday 21 April 2021 at 15:04:04, Daniel-Constantin Mierla wrote:

> Personally I do not need such feature (e.g., Zabbix), I was more curious
> if there is sort of common plugin API between some of the monitoring
> systems (like seems to be now for web browsers) -- if I am not wrong,
> some of these monitoring systems have common roots.

This is correct - the Nagios plugin protocol has more or less become a 
standard format, and is shared by Icinga, Icinga2 and Shinken at least.

I'm not sure about Zabbix - it's a long time I used that.


Antony.

> On 21.04.21 14:56, Giovanni Maruzzelli wrote:
> > No idea about Zabbix api, at the moment, maybe is the same as the
> > Nagios one.
> > 
> > If not, it will be easy to implement, just by changing exit status and
> > the way perf data are printed (if Zabbix supports perf data).
> > 
> > I'll add this to the TODO.
> > 
> > Thanks Daniel!
> > 
> > -giovanni

> > On Wed, Apr 21, 2021, 14:51 Daniel-Constantin Mierla wrote:
> >     Hello,
> >     
> >     On 21.04.21 11:42, Giovanni Maruzzelli wrote:
> >     > Hello fellow VoIPers and RTCers,
> >     > 
> >     > on GitHub there is an early release of sipnagios, opensource.
> >     > 
> >     > check it out: https://github.com/gmaruzz/sipnagios
> >     
> >     <https://github.com/gmaruzz/sipnagios>
> >     
> >     > <https://github.com/gmaruzz/sipnagios
> >     
> >     <https://github.com/gmaruzz/sipnagios>>
> >     
> >     > sipnagios is a Nagios Plugin to check Call Quality in SIP VoIP
> >     > (compatible with checkmk, etc)
> >     > 
> >     > sipnagios implements the Nagios plugin API for monitoring and
> >     > performance data.sipnagios.c is a modification of the original
> >     > siprtp.c sample in pjproject distribution. Supposedly, it works on
> >     > Linux, Windows, and anywhere you can compile pjproject on.It makes
> >     > a call, checks all the various resulting values (mos, rtt, pdd,
> >     > tta, jitter, packet loss, bytes and packets transferred, and so
> >     > on). It verifies these values are included into acceptable,
> >     > warning, or critical ranges.If the call has gone well, sipnagios
> >     > print
> >     
> >     performance
> >     
> >     > data for Nagios graphs, and returns 0.If the call fails, or if its
> >     > measured values are not inside acceptable ranges, it exits with
> >     
> >     Nagios
> >     
> >     > conventional WARNING or CRITICAL values.
> >     > 
> >     > mos calculation is scraped from Julien Chavanton work (VoIP
> >     
> >     Patrol, on
> >     
> >     > GitHub too) I can't even understand :) (merci Julien!)
> >     
> >     thanks for letting everyone here know about this tool!
> >     
> >     Do you know if other monitoring platforms (e.g., Zabbix) have the
> >     same plugin API and can be used with? Or it is for Nagios only?
> >     
> >     Cheers,
> >     Daniel

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