FreeRADIUS Monitoring Script Updated for Mavericks
I’ve updated the FreeRADIUS monitoring script for Nagios with support for OS X Mavericks Server. Mavericks changed the way the FreeRADIUS server is started, along with the paths of execution and storage.
Like the update to the Caching Server 2 monitoring script, I had to write a check to see if the current OS is running 10.9, and if it is, perform a Mavericks-specific check. Like I mentioned in the other article, doing a version check and comparison isn’t particularly easy in Bash, but thankfully, I only have the compare the major and minor release numbers which is nice given that it’s also a float. Using bc (the arbitrary precision calculator language - I should get that on a shirt!) I can quite easily calculate the difference between 10.8 and 10.9. Anyway, check the code below for how I get the version number.
sw_vers -productVersion | grep -E -o "[0-9]+\.[0-9]"
Next, the comparison is performed to see whether the current OS is less than 10.9. If the current OS is less than 10.9, 1 is returned. If it’s the same (or greater), the result is 0. This code is below:
echo $osVersion '< 10.9' | bc -l
Note that the above example requires the variable $osVersion. If you were hard coding the values, you could do something like below:
echo '10.8 < 10.9' | bc -l
The major difference in my script for OS X Mavericks is now there’s actually a process running called radiusd! Using ps and grep I now check to see if the FreeRADIUS server is running by doing this:
ps -ef | grep radiusd
Which, if the FreeRADIUS (or radiusd) is running, will return a non-empty string. If you run that and get an empty string (or nothing) back then your FreeRADIUS server isn’t running. Shit. I recommend doing radiusd -X to start your RADIUS server in debug mode. That or you forgot to get RADIUS added to launchd by entering radiusconfig -start. Anyway, that’s enough chit-chat, just get the damn code from the link below: