Features

• Shows device's state (up, down, upgrading, provisioning, etc.)
• Shows how much clients are connected
• Shows device's load
• Shows firmware as well as whetcher newer firmware is avaiable and displays that
• Shows controller's version
• Manual status-mapping (e.g. should newer firmware trigger a warning?)
• Multi-site support / autodetection

What's different?

• This script was forked from https://github.com/qgmgit/qgm-check_unifi. Main goal was to fetch more from the UniFi API and simplify the installation procedure.
• Needed API functions from the external file were merged into the script file.
• Optimized the parsing process (0m:18s vs 1m:45s for 167 devices on demo.unifi.com)
• The Check_MK's service name is now mapped with UniFi_<Device's Name> which may be a problem when using one name twice (e.g. on two sites)
• Permission checking of the config file to keep the credentials safe

Requirements

• UniFi Controller Software (can also be on remote host)
• Check_MK Agent
• Packages: jq, curl, wget

Installation / Setup

One-liner

The I-am-lazy-just-install method: Just copy-paste the whole block in the shell on Debian-based systems

apt install jq curl wget -y \
&& CMK_LOCAL=/usr/lib/check_mk_agent/local/check_unifi-controller.sh \
&& CMK_CONFIG=/etc/check_mk/unifi.cfg \
&& wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/binarybear-de/cmk_check_unifi-controller/master/check_unifi-controller.sh -O $CMK_LOCAL \
&& chmod +x $CMK_LOCAL \
&& wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/binarybear-de/cmk_check_unifi-controller/master/unifi.cfg -O $CMK_CONFIG \
&& chmod 700 $CMK_CONFIG \
&& chown root: $CMK_CONFIG \
&& unset CMK_LOCAL CMK_CONFIG

updating

CMK_LOCAL=/usr/lib/check_mk_agent/local/check_unifi-controller.sh \
&& wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/binarybear-de/cmk_check_unifi-controller/master/check_unifi-controller.sh -O $CMK_LOCAL \
&& chmod +x $CMK_LOCAL \
&& unset CMK_LOCAL

manual

• Install the packages "jq, curl, wget"
• Move the check_unifi-controller.sh into the local dir /usr/lib/check_mk_agent/local
• Move the unifi.cfg config file into Check_MK's config dir /etc/check_mk/unifi.cfg
• Set permissions of unifi.cfg to 700 with owner root

setup

• Ideally create a read-only user in UniFi for this task. Following permissions should be given:
  • Allow read only access to all sites (if used with multisite)
  • Allow system stats access
  • Show pending devices (to show new devices in monitoring)
• Set your credentials, controller's ip and other parameters in unifi.cfg

Sample Output

Running the script should give you something like this:

0 UniFi-Controller - Build atag_5.11.39_12706, Check-Script version 2020-12-26
0 UniFi_SW-24 clients=31|load=1.05 CONNECTED, Site: office, Clients: 31, Firmware: 4.0.45.10545 (4.3.20.11298 avaible)
2 UniFi_AP-C clients=6|load=0.40 DISCONNECTED, Site: office, Clients: 6, Firmware: 4.0.45.10545 (4.3.20.11298 avaible)
0 UniFi_Gateway clients=0|load=null UPGRADING, Site: office, Clients: 0, Firmware: 4.4.51.5287926
0 UniFi_AP-A clients=6|load=0.40 CONNECTED, Site: office, Clients: 6, Firmware: 4.3.20.11298 avaible
0 UniFi-Devices devices=6|sites=1|unamed=0|unadopted=0 6 devices on 1 sites