This is a fork of the Blackbox Exporter extended for the ScienceMesh project.

The original documentation of the Blackbox Exporter can be found here.

The main extension of this fork is the addition of a Nagios prober which can be used to perform checks using any Nagios probe. It can be configured as follows:

modules:
  nagios_test:
    prober: nagios
    nagios:
      check: check_test
      args:
        - --host $target$
        - --something=42
      treat_warnings_as_failure: true

The following values are supported for the nagios prober:

Placeholders in arguments passed to the Nagios probe via the args value have the form $name$:

args:
  - --host $target$ 

The following standard placeholders are supported:

Any additional parameters passed by URL can also be used as placeholders:

http://blackbox.example.com/probe?module=nagios_test&target=google.com&my_param=123

The custom parameter my_param can then be accessed as $my_param$ in the probe arguments.

Also note that placeholder names are not case-sensitive.

The included Makefile should only be used for building inside a Docker container.