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+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Plugin to monitor the number of hosts in /etc/hosts.deny
+# that are denied access to sshd
+
+# Copyright (C) 2010 Lothar Schmidt, l.munin@scarydevilmonastery.net
+#                                    Bushmills on #munin, irc.freenode.net
+#                                    latest versions on http://scarydevilmonastery.net/munin.cgi
+#
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of    
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+#
+# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# 20100310  v1.01  ls
+#               as threatened, shows now "temperatures" of active hosts.deny lines. Recent additions are 
+#               displayed in bright red, turning to blue as older the addition rules are.
+#               This requires denyhosts to add line to hosts.deny in a specific format. Also, times are currently
+#               hardcoded, and not a lot of flexibility adjusting them through parameters.
+#               A line in hosts.deny should come with a comment, looking like:
+#               # DenyHosts: Sat Mar  6 01:11:57 2010 | sshd: 87.101.51.198
+#               8 graphs are drawn from that depicting number of rules in 24 h increments. Different colours are
+#               assigned to graphs which are <24h, 24-48h, 48-72h ... old. The last (coldest) graph shows rules 
+#               which have been added > 168h ago.
+#               I'm considerering to change age granularity to hours, rather than days, and plot many graphs (64 or 128,
+#               which are nice for colour calculations), showing more of a colour cloud than discernible areas. 
+#               The plugin must have permission to read /etc/hosts.deny, of course.
+# 20100308, v1.0, ls 
+#               Will probably add multiple stacked graphs, indicative for addition/removal date of denies,
+#               instead of a boring single area graph.
+# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+#%# family=manual
+#%# capabilities=autoconf
+
+# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+DENY="/etc/hosts.deny"
+STATEDIR="/var/lib/munin/plugin-state"                       # directory where plugin can keep their working files
+NAME="$(basename $0)"                                        # component of naming temporary files
+STATEFILE="$STATEDIR/$NAME.state"
+COLOUR=(FF0000 DA0024 B60048 91006D 6D0091 4800B6 2400DA 0000FF)  # hot to cold colours
+# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+run_autoconf()  {
+        RUN="no"
+        which grep denyhosts basename > /dev/null && RUN="yes"             # only run when grep and denyhost are present
+        echo "$RUN"
+}
+
+
+run_config()  {
+cat << EOF
+graph_title denied sshd access in $DENY
+graph_args --base 1000 -l 0
+graph_vlabel Hosts denied
+graph_category services
+age0.label added last 24h
+age0.draw AREA
+age0.colour ${COLOUR[0]}
+EOF
+for AGE in {1..7}; do
+cat << EOF
+age${AGE}.label older than $((AGE*24))h
+age${AGE}.draw STACK
+age${AGE}.colour ${COLOUR[$AGE]}
+EOF
+done
+}
+
+
+run_fetch()   {
+   TOTAL=0
+   NOW=$(date +%s)
+   sed -n 's/^\# DenyHosts: //;s/ | .*//gp' $DENY |         # strip all but date
+   while read DATE; do 
+      echo $(((NOW - $(date -d "$DATE" +%s))/86400))        # calculate rule age
+   done > $STATEFILE                                        # rather than going through temp file, the age could be
+   for AGE in {0..6} ; do                                   # used to increment an array element with that index.
+      COUNT="$(grep -c "^$AGE$" $STATEFILE)"                # That'd save grepping for counting from temp file.
+      echo "age${AGE}.value $COUNT"                         # produce values for all but oldest
+      ((TOTAL+=COUNT))
+   done
+   echo "age7.value $(($(grep -c . $STATEFILE)-TOTAL))"     # all non-printed are older
+   rm $STATEFILE
+}
+
+run_${1:-"fetch"}
+exit 0