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h1. Introduction

The probes available in the Petals internals and components are able to send JMX notifications when they detect a defect. These notifications can be sent to Nagios with a dedicated monitoring command of Petals CLI that receive JMX notifications and write them in the channel of Nagios passive checks.

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The daemon *{{petals-cli-nagios}}* listen JMX notifications coming from Petals ESB nodes using a dedicated Petals CLI command. When it receives a JMX notification, it formats and prints an external command for Nagios. The host and service emitting the JMX notification are transformed into Nagios host and Nagios service through a mapping file.

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h1. Installation

These integration of Petals ESB, Petals CLI and Nagios is available on Debian-based system and is packaged as a Debian package: {{petals-cli-cmd-monitoring-so-nagios}}.
{tip}To run on other operating system, we need your contribution to port the daemon script wrapping Petals CLI on this operating system.{tip}
See [Installing Petals CLI using the Debian packages] to get more information on this Debian package.

h1. Configuration

Once your Nagios installation is configured to accept external commands, you must verify in {{/etc/petals-cli/petals-cli-nagios}} that the expected Nagios pipe file is set according to your Nagios installation. The default value is the one associated to the Debian package of Nagios.

To add a new defect subscription to sent to Nagios:
# create a new file in the directory {{/etc/petals-cli/nagios-subscriptions-available}} from the template {{/etc/petals-cli/nagios-subscriptions-available/nagios-subscription-template}}:
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# JMX connection information to the Petals ESB container
#
host=localhost
port=7700
username=petals
password=petals

# The subscription object and its arguments
#
subscription-object=petals-bc-soap
extra-args=-n petals-bc-soap -t file:///etc/petals-cli/nagios-mapping-rules.properties
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where the first part is the required JMX connection information to establish a communication with a Petals ESB container, and the second part is dedicated to the wanted defect.
# configure the file {{/etc/petals-cli/nagios-mapping-rules.properties}} to map the hosts and services declared into Nagios with your Petals ESB installation,
# you can test your defect subscription using the script {{/usr/bin/petals-cli-nagios}}:
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> sudo /usr/bin/petals-cli-nagios <your-defect-subscription-file>