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Check EOL

Script: check_eol

check_eol is a plugin for Icinga/ Nagios. It detects the end of life of an OS or a product.

You get a status “ok”, “warning” or “critical” based on the limits.

The status is “unknown” if a product or the eol date was not detected.

It is customizable / extendable to detect other products that are not included in the delivered basic config.

Standalone installation

From this repository ypu need next to this script:

  • inc_pluginfunctions shared function for all IML checks written in bash
  • ./check_eol-data/* end of life data for several products
  • ./check_eol-versiondetect/* scripts to detect a version per product

Syntax

./check_eol
______________________________________________________________________

CHECK EOL :: v1.5

(c) Institute for Medical Education - University of Bern
Licence: GNU GPL 3
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Check and of support of an OS or a product.
The dates are defined in the files check_eol-*.cfg
For detailed information see docs/20_Checks/check_eol.md

USAGE
  $ check_eol [-c CRITICAL] [-w WARING] PRODUCT VERSION

PARAMETERS
  PRODUCT  set a product; known product keys are listed below

             centos
             debian
             mariadb
             mysql
             node
             php
             postgres
             ruby
             ubuntu

  VERSION  set a version.
           Autodetection:
           There is a special handling vor version "detect".
           You can set "os" as product to detect the (linux) distribution.
           See examples below.

OPTIONS
  -c  set critical limit; default 90
  -w  set warning limit; default 365

EXAMPLES
  check_eol php 8.1
  check_eol -w 100 -c 30 php 8.1
  check_eol os detect
  check_eol php detect

Parameters

PRODUCT set a product; known product keys are listed below VERSION set a version.

Autodetection: There is a special handling vor version “detect”. You can set “os” as product to detect the (linux) distribution. See examples below.

Options

-c set critical limit; default 90 -w set warning limit; default 365

Examples

check_eol php 7.4 Show end of life for given php version 7.4

check_eol -w 100 -c 30 php 7.4 Add custom critical and warning limits

check_eol os detect Show end of life for current linux os. The distribution and the major version will be detected.

check_eol php detect Show the end of life for the detected php version

Extend/ customize

The check is build to be customizable. You can add

  • add your own end of life dates
  • write a version detection for other products

The related files are in 2 subdirectories with check_eol prefix:

> ls -1  check_eol-data/ check_eol-versiondetect/
check_eol-data/:
databases.cfg
os.cfg
program-languages.cfg

check_eol-versiondetect/:
autodetect-mysqlany*
autodetect-os*
detect-mariadb*
detect-mysql*
detect-node*
detect-php*
detect-postgres*
detect-ruby*

End of life dates

The dates are defined in the files check_eol-.cfg*. Those contain lines with parsed information that must start at the begin of line:

  • [Key]:[version]:[Date as YYYY-MM-DD]:[COMMENT]
    • Key: name of the product in lowercase, i.e. “php”, “centos”
    • Version: version number, i.e. a major version i.e. “12” for Node or “7.4” for PHP
    • Date as YYYY-MM-DD
    • Comment: this is optional
  • [Key]:METADATA for a product (can be multiline)
    • This type is completely optional. You can use it to show general (version indepenendent) product infos. It will be shown as additional text for each version of a product

Al other lines, like empty lines, lines starting with special characters are ignored. I use the hash to mark comments.

Snippet:

# --------------------------------------------
centos:The CentOS Project
centos:website https://www.centos.org/
# --------------------------------------------

centos:6:2020-11-30
centos:7:2024-06-30
centos:8:2029-05-31

Example output:

$ check_eol centos 7
OK [centos 7] ends on 2024-06-30 ... 1586 days left 

The CentOS Project
website https://www.centos.org/

Limit Info: warn below 365 days; critical below 90 days

Files

  • check_eol-data/os.cfg - contains eol dates for debian, centos, ubuntu
  • check_eol-data/check_eol-databases.cfg - Mariadb, PostgreSql
  • check_eol-data/check_eol-program-languages.cfg - Php, NodeJS

You can add your custom products and dates - it just must match check_eol-.cfg*. You should use a custom file name that does not conflict with delivered files.

Suggestion: check_eol-data/custom-[my category].cfg

Version detection

If you use check_eol [product] [version] with an already known version in your monitoring check then the search for an eol date is done directly in the *cfg files (see above).

If you wan to let detect the version use the keyword detect next to a product i.e. check_eol php detect. What happens is is uses a detection for the version number. Therefor it calls a script named check_eol-versiondetect/detect-[PRODUCT] - in our example for php ist is check_eol-versiondetect/detect-php.

The scripts check_eol-versiondetect/detect-[PRODUCT] must return just a major version - or major and minor version without any other text.

You can add your own scripts for other non existing products. The only rule is: it must output the version only. Your [PRODUCT] and the returned version will be scanned in check_eol-.cfg* to perform the eol check.