Nagios plugin for checking Active Sync
Base for this plugin was great article about EAS protocol written by Andreas Helland (Digging Into The Exchange ActiveSync Protocol) http://mobilitydojo.net/2010/03/17/digging-into-the-exchange-activesync-protocol/
Command line: check_activesync.sh
This plugin will attempt to connect to EAS (Exchange Active Sync) server and get Folder information for specific user Scripts is checking existing of some unique Folder in the output
- This plugin requires that the curl program is installed.
- You need to copy binary file activesync.txt to: /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/ or change in script to reflect your configuration (--data-binary @/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/activesync.txt) (If you are interested in the byte sequence here goes: 03 01 6a 00 00 07 56 52 03 30 00 01 01.)
- You need to configure Active Sync manually to know DeviceID and DeviceType information for that you must use real mobile device or emulator to create partnership
- You need to create unique folder in user's mailbox (eg. Nagios2759671)
- MS-ASProtocolVersion: 12.0 (Exchange 2007 RTM) 14.0 (Exchange 2010) 12.1 (Exchange 2007 SP1) 12.0 (Exchange 2007 RTM)
$1 - domain name
$2 - username
$3 - password (Note: avoid using of special character e.g.: escalation mark!)
$4 - DeviceID - A unique id for the device that is synchronizing (you gen retrieve that information from owa (Outlook web access))
or using power shell:
Get-ActiveSyncDevice -Identity "user"
Get-ActiveSyncDevice -Mailbox "domainuser"
$5 - DeviceType - An id for the device/model you are using, or the ActiveSync client. (can be anything eg. PocketPC or iPhone)
$6 - activesyncserver (eg. as.contoso.com)
$7 - UniqueFolder (eg. Nagios2759671)
define command {
command_name check_activesync
command_line /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_activesync.sh
}
If you want a availability graph then you need to turn on performance data for this check.