[tor-bugs] #33972 [Internal Services/Tor Sysadmin Team]: Add Nagios check for CollecTor

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#33972: Add Nagios check for CollecTor
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 Reporter:  karsten                              |          Owner:  anarcat
     Type:  task                                 |         Status:
                                                 |  reopened
 Priority:  Medium                               |      Milestone:
Component:  Internal Services/Tor Sysadmin Team  |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                               |     Resolution:
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Changes (by karsten):

 * status:  closed => reopened
 * resolution:  fixed =>


Comment:

 Thanks for deploying the check! Can you change
 [https://gitweb.torproject.org/admin/tor-nagios.git/tree/config/nagios-
 master.cfg?id=9d70ee6ded7d0048a25242684b41541e010c424e#n1451 this line] to
 `contacts: +metrics`, so that alerts don't go out just to me but to the
 metrics-alerts@ mailing list?

 I'll move away a file on colchicifolium now to trigger the alert and back
 afterwards. Just to see if it's working.

 I'll also look into the parameters and using argparse next week.
 Unfortunately, the check wouldn't work for corsicum right now anyway,
 because that CollecTor instance does not archive all descriptor types. It
 would just keep shouting about timestamps being missing. Maybe we'll need
 to add another option to only complain about outdated timestamp, not about
 missing timestamps. Added to my list.

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