check_icecast

Project Notes

Icecast is a streaming media server that is used by many community and commercial radio stations around the world.

This plugin checks the status of a specific Icecast mount, and can warn if listener numbers falls below a certain number.

* The status2.xsl file has been removed from the lastest release, I have attached it here you can upload this to use it *

** I will be improving on the below to also use the new status-json.xsl **

Requirements:
– PHP CLI 5.3 or above

Plugin Usage:
check_icecast -H HOST -m MOUNT [options]
check_icecast –host=HOST –mount=MOUNT [–options]

Require Options:
-H HOST Specift the host to query
–host=HOST (IP or FQDN)

-M MOUNT Specift the mount point to monitor
–mount=MOUNT (e.g. /live)

Optional Options:
-h,–help This help message and exit
-p PORT,–port=PORT Icecast port [Default 8000]
-s PAGE,–page=PAGE Status page [Default status2.xsl]
-t n,–timeout=n Timeout in seconds [Default 5]
-z,–warnzero Warn if zero listeners
-w n,–warn=n Warn if less then n listeners
-v,–verbose Print diagnostic information
-d,–debug as above but MORE
-V,–version print version info and exit