For a monitoring system to receive more information from an endpoint
other than that it is simply accessible, help is required from the
target system. For example - how else can Checkmk know how full a
server's storage volume is without that system somehow providing the
information? The component that provides this information is always an
active piece of software - namely a monitoring agent, usually just
referred to as an agent. An agent collects data relevant to monitoring
from a host at specified intervals and transmits that data to the
monitoring server.
For servers and workstations, Checkmk provides its own agents, these
are known as Checkmk agents. Checkmk agents are available for a wide
variety of operating systems - from the commonplace such as Windows and
Linux to exotics such as OpenVMS. The agents are passive and listen on
TCP port 6556. Only on receiving a Checkmk server query will these
agents be activated and respond with the required data.
===> The following configuration options are available for check_mk_agent-2.5.0p15:
DOCS=on: Build and/or install documentation
===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
net-mgmt/check_mk_agent: Change default paths
Upstream changed default values for MK_CONFDIR and MK_VARDIR.
This updates the patch to properly use PREFIX with the new defaults
and not hardcode to /usr/local.
PR: 297244
Approved by: maintainer
net-mgmt/check_mk_agent: Update 2.3.0p16 => 2.4.0p20
Commit log:
https://github.com/Checkmk/checkmk/commits/7e6a4f8/agents/check_mk_agent.freebsd
Upstream hasn't created tags for new versions since 2.4.0p12, so we use
the hash.
PR: 292480
Approved by: Ian Valentine <ivalentine@arizona.edu> (maintainer, timeout 3
weeks)
Co-authored-by: Lukas Engelhardt <lukas.engelhardt@gmx.de>
net-mgmt/check_mk_agent: update to 2.3.0p12
Add dependencies on sysutils/ipmitool, devel/libstatgrab, ftp/wget,
and USES=python since those are listed as required in the docs.
[https://docs.checkmk.com/latest/en/agent_freebsd.html]
Switch to PREFIX (from LOCALBASE).
Change MK_VARDIR from /var/lib/check_mk_agent to /var/db/check_mk_agent.
Update the pkg-message to remove reference to devel/libstatgrab and
devel/libstatgrab since those are included now, and changed the docs URL
to be current.
Changelog: https://checkmk.com/werks
PR: 280953
Approved by: submitter is maintainer
Remove WWW entries moved into port Makefiles
Commit b7f05445c00f has added WWW entries to port Makefiles based on
WWW: lines in pkg-descr files.
This commit removes the WWW: lines of moved-over URLs from these
pkg-descr files.
Approved by: portmgr (tcberner)
Add WWW entries to port Makefiles
It has been common practice to have one or more URLs at the end of the
ports' pkg-descr files, one per line and prefixed with "WWW:". These
URLs should point at a project website or other relevant resources.
Access to these URLs required processing of the pkg-descr files, and
they have often become stale over time. If more than one such URL was
present in a pkg-descr file, only the first one was tarnsfered into
the port INDEX, but for many ports only the last line did contain the
port specific URL to further information.
There have been several proposals to make a project URL available as
a macro in the ports' Makefiles, over time.
(Only the first 15 lines of the commit message are shown above )
Update to 1.6.0p8
- Do not download the whole release tarball. This port needs only a couple
of small text files from that huge tarball of a couple of hundreds of
megabytes.
- Add USES=perl5. It is required by the agent now.
- Pet portclippy & portfmt.
Reported by: Repology
net-mgmt/check_mk_agent: Update to 1.5.0p21
- Use patches to have better control over future changes in the agent
script.
- Update the software name in pkg-message.
- Break long lines.
Reported by: Repology
net-mgmt/check_mk_agent: Update to 1.5.0.p13
Reviewed by: mat
Approved by: mat (mentor)
Sponsored by: BALLY WULFF Games & Entertainment GmbH
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19714
New port: net-mgmt/check_mk_agent: Nagios-compatible agent for the Check_MK
monitoring
Check_MK is a software for effective IT monitoring. Easy installation,
best-in-class scalability and a broad range of features are just some of the
reasons why more and more users become Check_MK fans.
WWW: http://mathias-kettner.com/check_mk.html
Reviewed by: mat
Approved by: mat (mentor)
Sponsored by: BALLY WULFF Games & Entertainment GmbH
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18891
