Anyone worked out a Nagios test for pfSense CARP status?

[whitwye]

If not, and you know where to look on the CLI to check that, I can put together a plugin to watch that. We need it here.

Thanks!

[Derelict]

The Status > CARP page looks at output from ifconfig:

xn1: flags=8943 <up,broadcast,running,promisc,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
options=3 <rxcsum,txcsum>ether f2:92:fa:6a:32:79
hwaddr f2:92:fa:6a:32:79
inet6 fe80::f092:faff:fe6a:3279%xn1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x6
inet6 2001:dead:beef:7fff::12 prefixlen 64
inet6 2001:dead:beef:7fff::11 prefixlen 64 vhid 238
inet 172.25.228.18 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 172.25.228.255
inet 172.25.228.17 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 172.25.228.255 vhid 228
inet 172.25.228.140 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 172.25.228.140 vhid 228
inet 172.25.228.65 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 172.25.228.65 vhid 228
inet 172.25.228.66 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 172.25.228.66 vhid 228
inet 172.25.228.67 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 172.25.228.67 vhid 228
nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>media: Ethernet manual
status: active
carp: MASTER vhid 228 advbase 1 advskew 0
carp: MASTER vhid 238 advbase 1 advskew 0

xn1: flags=8943 <up,broadcast,running,promisc,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
ether d2:a1:91:e7:2b:cb
hwaddr d2:a1:91:e7:2b:cb
inet6 fe80::d0a1:91ff:fee7:2bcb%xn1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x6
inet6 2001:dead:beef:7fff::13 prefixlen 64
inet6 2001:dead:beef:7fff::11 prefixlen 64 vhid 238
inet 172.25.228.19 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 172.25.228.255
inet 172.25.228.140 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 172.25.228.140 vhid 228
inet 172.25.228.65 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 172.25.228.65 vhid 228
inet 172.25.228.66 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 172.25.228.66 vhid 228
inet 172.25.228.67 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 172.25.228.67 vhid 228
inet 172.25.228.17 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 172.25.228.255 vhid 228
nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>media: Ethernet manual
status: active
carp: BACKUP vhid 228 advbase 1 advskew 100
carp: BACKUP vhid 238 advbase 1 advskew 100</performnud,auto_linklocal></up,broadcast,running,promisc,simplex,multicast></performnud,auto_linklocal></rxcsum,txcsum></up,broadcast,running,promisc,simplex,multicast>

[darkfader]

@whitwye:

If not, and you know where to look on the CLI to check that, I can put together a plugin to watch that. We need it here.

Thanks!

I got a few for Check_MK you can adopt.
Basically, neither CARP nor uCARP give good monitoring interfaces.

This is what I used, and also some time had adopted for pfSense (I think)
https://github.com/FlorianHeigl/nagios/tree/master/check_mk/ucarp_status

The main thought behind this is to monitor the initial role of both nodes and then compare that.