#! /usr/bin/env python ############################################################################### # Nagios plugin template # # Notes # - The RHEL boxes I work on are currently limited to Python 2.6.6, hence the # use of (deprecated) optparse. If I can ever get them all updated to # Python 2.7 (or better yet, 3.3), I'll switch to argparse # - This template runs in 2.6-3.3. Any changes made will need to be appropriate # to the Python distro you want to use # ############################################################################### __author__ = 'Your Name Here' __version__= 0.1 from optparse import OptionParser, OptionGroup import logging as log ## These will override any args passed to the script normally. Comment out after testing. #testargs = '--help' #testargs = '--version' #testargs = '-vvv' def main(): """ Main plugin logic goes here """ ## Parse command-line arguments args, args2 = parse_args() ## Uncomment to test logging levels against verbosity settings # log.debug('debug message') # log.info('info message') # log.warning('warning message') # log.error('error message') # log.critical('critical message') # log.fatal('fatal message') gtfo(0) def parse_args(): """ Parse command-line arguments """ parser = OptionParser(usage='usage: %prog [-v|vv|vvv] [options]', version='{0}: v.{1} by {2}'.format('%prog', __version__, __author__)) ## Verbosity (want this first, so it's right after --help and --version) parser.add_option('-v', help='Set verbosity level', action='count', default=0, dest='v') ## CLI arguments specific to this script group = OptionGroup(parser,'Plugin Options') group.add_option('-x', '--extra', help='Your option here', default=None) ## Common CLI arguments #parser.add_option('-c', '--critical', help='Set the critical threshold. Default: %(default)s', # default=97, type=float, dest='crit', metavar='##') #parser.add_option('-w', '--warning', help='Set the warning threshold. Default: %(default)s', # default=95, type=float, dest='warn', metavar='##') parser.add_option_group(group) ## Try to parse based on the testargs variable. If it doesn't exist, use args try: args, args2 = parser.parse_args(testargs.split()) except NameError: args, args2 = parser.parse_args() ## Set the logging level based on the -v arg log.getLogger().setLevel([log.ERROR, log.WARN, log.INFO, log.DEBUG][args.v]) log.debug('Parsed arguments: {0}'.format(args)) log.debug('Other arguments: {0}'.format(args2)) return args, args2 def gtfo(exitcode, message=''): """ Exit gracefully with exitcode and (optional) message """ log.debug('Exiting with status {0}. Message: {1}'.format(exitcode, message)) if message: print(message) exit(exitcode) if __name__ == '__main__': ## Initialize logging before hitting main, in case we need extra debuggability log.basicConfig(level=log.DEBUG, format='%(asctime)s - %(funcName)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s') main()