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Monitoring services with xinetd

Mike Peters, 08-31-2014
About xinetd

xinetd (extended Internet services daemon) performs the same function as inetd: it starts programs that provide Internet services.

Instead of having such servers started at system initialization time, and be dormant until a connection request arrives, xinetd is the only daemon process started and it listens on all service ports for the services listed in its configuration file.

When a request comes in, xinetd starts the appropriate script.

Sample xinetd configuration file

Listen for connections on port 9001. Run cassandra_status shell script per each thread and return the result.


service cassandra_monitor
{
   
flags    = REUSE
    socket_type 
= stream
    port     
= 9001
    wait     
= no
    user     
= nobody
    server   
= /home/xinetd/cassandra_status.sh
    log_on_failure
+= USERID
    disable   
= no
}

Installing xinetd

On FreeBSD:


cd
/usr/ports/security/xinetd
make all
make install

On CentOS:


yum install xinetd

Configuring Monitoring scripts

xinetd light weight server makes it easy to test several conditions, before returning a response of "All good" to a third party monitoring script like Pingdom.

Here's a sample xinetd shell monitoring script that we use to detect if a Cassandra node is running properly.


#!/usr/local/bin/bash
#

# Check if swap is over 20%
SWAP=`top -n | grep Swap | awk '{print $8 + 0}'`
if [
$SWAP -ge 20 ]
then
   
# error occured, return http 503
   
/bin/echo "HTTP/1.1 503 Service Unavailable\r\n"
   
/bin/echo "\r\n"
   
exit
fi

# Check if other instances of this script are already running, allowing a maximum of 10 to run at the same time
ALREADY_RUNNING=`ps auxww | grep bash | grep cassandra_status.sh | wc -l`
if [
$ALREADY_RUNNING -ge 10 ]
then
   
# error occured, return http 503
   
/bin/echo "HTTP/1.1 503 Service Unavailable\r\n"
   
/bin/echo "\r\n"
   
exit
fi

# Get my ip
MYIP=`dig +noall +answer cassandra-local | awk '{print $5; nextfile;}'`

# Get ring information (to verify we can see the whole ring)
# then extract our node status and verify it is Up
ERROR_MSG=`/home/cassandra/bin/nodetool ring | grep "$MYIP" | grep Up`

if [
"$ERROR_MSG" != "" ]
then
   
# all is fine, return http 200
   
/bin/echo "HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n"
   
/bin/echo "\r\n"
else
   
# error occured, return http 503
   
/bin/echo "HTTP/1.1 503 Service Unavailable\r\n"
   
/bin/echo "\r\n"
fi
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