Nagios : quick and dirty patch to enable (force) SSL on check_mysql_health

Mathieu — Sat, 06 Jun 2015 16:10:00 +0200

Sometimes you don’t want to set up a VPN just to safely monitor your MySQL servers. Because SSL should be implemented in check_mysql_health, here is a quick and dirty patch for SSL connexion. I assume you already configured your MySQL server to use SSL if client wants to (or if user requires ssl).

File /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_mysql_health at line 1863, after the following block :

    } else {
      $self->{dsn} .= sprintf ";host=%s", $self->{hostname};
      $self->{dsn} .= sprintf ";port=%s", $self->{port}
          unless $self->{socket} || $self->{hostname} eq 'localhost';
      $self->{dsn} .= sprintf ";mysql_socket=%s", $self->{socket}
          if $self->{socket};

Add these lines :

    $self->{dsn} .= ";mysql_ssl=1";
    $self->{dsn} .= ";mysql_ssl_client_key=/etc/ssl/mysql/client.key";
    $self->{dsn} .= ";mysql_ssl_client_cert=/etc/ssl/mysql/client.crt";
    $self->{dsn} .= ";mysql_ssl_ca_file=/etc/ssl/mysql/ca.crt";

Where /etc/ssl/mysql/client.key is the path to client key, /etc/ssl/mysql/client.crt the path to client certificate, and /etc/ssl/mysql/ca.crt the path to the CA certificate.

It should work, while there is still no “SSL switch” on that plugin.

EDIT : actually there is an undocumented param named “—mycnf” which should allow you to enable SSL for client connection in a prettier way.

# uname -a - Mot-clé - check_mysql_health

Nagios : quick and dirty patch to enable (force) SSL on check_mysql_health