jackbenny / check_smhi

Nagios plugin to check the SMHI website for wheather alerts

check_smhi

A Nagios plugin that checks the SMHI (Sveriges Meteorologiska och Hydrologiska Institut) webpage for wheather alerts for a specfic region. If no alerts are issued for the specified region or district the plugin exits with a STATE_OK (0) exit code. If a class 1 warning (lowest on the scale) is issued for the region the plugin exits with a STATE_WARNING (1). For class 2 and class 3 wheater alerts the plugin exits with a STATE_CRITICAL (2) exit code.

Usage

-D
   District to check for wheather alerts.
   NOTE: Districts must be quoted, such as "Skåne län utom österlen"
-P
   Print a list with all the avaliable districts.
-h
   Print detailed help screen.
-V
   Print version information.

Note from above that regions/districts must be quoted as a string!

Contributions

All contriubtions are welcome! Fork the repository, make your changes, push it back up and send me a pull request. Once I've checked out the code and accepted it I will add you to the THANKS file and update the CHANGELOG.

Copyright

This plugin is released under the GNU GPL license, version 2. Note that this plugin may fail at any time! So DON'T rely on this plugin to protect life or property!

Note that I am NOT in any way affiliated with SMHI. I wrote this plugin on my own on and my own spare time. This plugin fetches it's data from SMHI so please use the plugin with respect for SMHI. For example use a check interval of something like 30 minutes instead of every single minute.