nagios check script for rabbitmq cluster

As part of an openstack monitoring solution, I set up a few nagios checks for rabbitmq. Most of what I wanted is allready covered by nagios-plugins-rabbitmq by James Casey. Additionally I wanted to check the cluster status of my rabbitmq cluster, so I modified one of his scripts: If you find this usefull or or have suggestions, please let me know via comments.

Restricted characters on NTFS bugging resync

When reviewing the log of my rsync backup script (which does backup to a cifs mounted NTFS network drive) I found strange error messages ("No such file or directory (2)", "Invalid argument (22)"). It turns out that there are restricted characters on NTFS formated drives, which I, growing up on linux, did not know.

So, if you happen to stumble on such errors, the only workaround it seems is to avoid theses characters in filenames: "/\*?<>|:
See here for more info on filesystem quirks.