Nagios check for monit services going unmonitored

check_monit.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import urllib2
import base64
import sys
import optparse

from xml.dom.minidom import parseString


p = optparse.OptionParser(conflict_handler="resolve", description= "This Nagios plugin checks monit services if they are actively monitoring.")
p.add_option('-H', '--host', action='store', type='string', dest='host', default='127.0.0.1', help='The hostname you want to connect to')
p.add_option('-P', '--port', action='store', type='string', dest='port', default='2812', help='The port you want to connect to')
p.add_option('-u', '--user', action='store', type='string', dest='user', default='', help='The username to auth as')
p.add_option('-p', '--passwd', action='store', type='string', dest='passwd', default='', help='The password to use for the user')
options, arguments = p.parse_args()



request = urllib2.Request("http://%s:%s/_status?format=xml" % (options.host, options.port))
base64string = base64.encodestring('%s:%s' % (options.user, options.passwd)).replace('\n', '')
request.add_header("Authorization", "Basic %s" % base64string)   
result = urllib2.urlopen(request)

dom = parseString("".join(result.readlines()))
for service in dom.getElementsByTagName('service'):
	name = service.getElementsByTagName('name')[0].firstChild.data
	monitor = int(service.getElementsByTagName('monitor')[0].firstChild.data)

	if monitor == 0:
		print "%s not monitored" % name
		sys.exit(2)


print "Everything being monitored"
sys.exit(0)

monit.cfg

#
# the command
#
define command{
    command_name check_monit
    command_line /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_monit.py -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -P 2812 -u user -p passwd
}