Discovery

This plugin can be integrated with Pandora FMS Discovery.

To do so, load the ".disco" package that you can download from the Pandora FMS library:

Once loaded, NGINX instances can be monitored by creating Discovery tasks from the Management > Discovery > Application > NGINX section.

For each task the following minimum data will be requested in the NGINX Basic step:

NGINX Status URLs: NGINX stub_status endpoint URLs, separated by commas or one per line. Each URL will generate an agent.
Username: username for the NGINX endpoint if it requires HTTP basic authentication, optional
Password: password for the NGINX endpoint if it requires HTTP basic authentication, optional
Verify SSL: active if the URL SSL certificate needs to be verified, inactive by default
Transfer mode: transfer mode (native or tentacle), optional
Tentacle IP: tentacle IP, optional
Tentacle port: tentacle port, optional

In the NGINX Advanced step additional options can be configured:

Module prefix: prefix to add to all created module names, optional
Request timeout: maximum wait time for the HTTP request in seconds, optional (default 10)
Allow list: regular expression to include only modules whose name matches, optional
Deny list: regular expression to exclude modules whose name matches, optional

Successfully completed tasks will show an execution summary with the following information: