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Check hin-status

Overview

Retrieves the HIN status page from https://support.hin.ch/de/ and searches for out-of-service messages. Unfortunately there is no machine-readable version yet, so the plugin has to rely on the WordPress-generated HTML content.

Fact Sheet

Fact Value
Check Plugin Download https://github.com/Linuxfabrik/monitoring-plugins/tree/main/check-plugins/hin-status
Check Interval Recommendation Once a minute
Can be called without parameters Yes
Compiled for Windows No
3rd Party Python modules beautifulsoup

Help

usage: hin-status [-h] [-V] [--always-ok] [--insecure] [--no-proxy]
                  [--test TEST] [--timeout TIMEOUT] [--url URL]

Retrieves the HIN status page from https://support.hin.ch/de/ and searches for
out-of-service messages. Unfortunately there is no machine-readable version
yet, so the plugin has to rely on the WordPress-generated HTML content.

options:
  -h, --help         show this help message and exit
  -V, --version      show program's version number and exit
  --always-ok        Always returns OK.
  --insecure         This option explicitly allows to perform "insecure" SSL
                     connections. Default: False
  --no-proxy         Do not use a proxy. Default: False
  --test TEST        For unit tests. Needs "path-to-stdout-file,path-to-
                     stderr-file,expected-retc".
  --timeout TIMEOUT  Network timeout in seconds. Default: 8 (seconds)
  --url URL          HIN Status Page URL. Default: https://support.hin.ch/de/

Usage Examples

./hin-status

Output:

Incidents: Störung beim Einlesen von Krankenkassenkarten. See https://support.hin.ch/de/ for details.

States

  • WARN if out-of-service messages are found

Perfdata / Metrics

Name Type Description
cnt_incidents Number 1 if out-of-service messages are found, 0 otherwise

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