Recommended JMX plugin for Nagios?

Question

There are several Nagios JMX plugins out there, according to the Nagios plugin registry and Google. Any recommendations on one JMX nagios service check over the others? The few I glanced at briefly didn't seem to be under active maintenance...

Answer 1

Please have a look a jmx4perl. It is acvtively maintained and continously improved (version 0.70 with multi checks is close to release, milestone 4 is already available).

Some unique features of jmx4perl (and check_jmx4perl) compared to the other Nagios JMX Plugins:

• No local java installation required on the Nagios Host (pure HTTP/Rest communication)
• Bulk requests (multiple JMX request within a single HTTP Request)
• Fine granular security policy possible
• Relative and incremental checks supported

You can find jmx4perl at www.jmx4perl.org, and quite some blog posts about it at labs.consol.de

(of course this info is a bit biased as I'm the author of jmx4perl ;-)