Nagios SSL Certificate Expiration Check
by Alpha01
So, a while back I demonstrated a way to to set up an automated SSL certificate expiration monitoring solution.
Well, it turns out the check_http Nagios plugin has built-in support to monitor SSL certificate expiration as well. This is accomplished using the -C / --certificate options.
Example check on a local expired Let’s Encrypt Certificate:
[root@monitor plugins]# ./check_http -t 10 -H www.rubysecurity.org -I 192.168.1.61 -C 10
SSL CRITICAL - Certificate 'www.rubysecurity.org' expired on 2018-07-25 18:39 -0700/PDT.
check_http help doc:
-C, --certificate=INTEGER[,INTEGER]
Minimum number of days a certificate has to be valid. Port defaults to 443
(when this option is used the URL is not checked.)
CHECK CERTIFICATE: check_http -H www.verisign.com -C 30,14
When the certificate of 'www.verisign.com' is valid for more than 30 days,
a STATE_OK is returned. When the certificate is still valid, but for less than
30 days, but more than 14 days, a STATE_WARNING is returned.
A STATE_CRITICAL will be returned when certificate expires in less than 14 days
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