check_mk Extension for Proxmox Backup Server

This check_mk extension adds checks Proxmox Backup Server:

• Datastore (Size, Usage)
• Garbage collection
• Verify jobs

Warning

This extension is still work in progress and produces a huge agent output

Installation

The mkp archive can be downloaded directly from the release and installed by following the documentation of check_mk.

Building

Usually you don't see a section as how to build an mkp, because usually it's done like check_mk suggests using WATO or CLI. But we made it easier and included two helper tools into this repository, that depend on the tool python-mkp, which is a fork of tom-mi/python-mkp. Unfortunally, the original tool, which can be installed using pip cannot be used because it wouldn't package some files.

Requirements

• python-mkp

just run

$ build/mkp-pack

Contributing

issues, you can't fix / ideas, you can't implement

Use GitHub's Issues: Try to explain as clear and short as possible.

you want to write some code?

• Use Pull requests
• Sign off your commits
• Adapt to the coding style. Divert from it, if doing so increases readability.
• Don't check in IDE specific files or products of a build.

Issues

yes, we have those This extension 'works for us' right now, but it's far from optimal.

• Agent output is way to much and must be optimized
• Names of metrics should be changed

TODOs

(even more, than issues)

• Check of sync jobs
• Check prune jobs
• Check tape jobs
• Check, if verify jobs are running
• Optimize parsing of agent output
• Add check parameters for timeouts of verify, garbage collection and prune jobs
• Move todos and issues to GitHub issues and projects (without being recursive)