diff --git a/misc/check_rhcs b/misc/check_rhcs
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+#!/bin/env python
+
+#
+# Gather the cluster state and the current node state
+#
+# Output example:
+#<clustat version="4.1.1">
+#  <cluster name="LabCluster" id="22068" generation="172"/>
+#  <quorum quorate="1" groupmember="1"/>
+#  <nodes>
+#    <node name="clusternode1.lab.inetu.net" state="1" local="0" \
+#          estranged="0" rgmanager="1" rgmanager_master="0" qdisk="0" nodeid="0x00000001"/>
+#    <node name="clusternode2.lab.inetu.net" state="1" local="1" \
+#          estranged="0" rgmanager="1" rgmanager_master="0" qdisk="0" nodeid="0x00000002"/>
+#    <node name="/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-36002219000b9642b000027124a3b61f1-part1" state="1" \
+#          local="0" estranged="0" rgmanager="0" rgmanager_master="0" qdisk="1" nodeid="0x00000000"/>
+#  </nodes>
+#  <groups>
+#    <group name="service:MySQL" state="112" state_str="started" flags="0" flags_str="" \
+#           owner="clusternode2.lab.inetu.net" last_owner="clusternode1.lab.inetu.net" restarts="0" \
+#           last_transition="1245765274" last_transition_str="Tue Jun 23 09:54:34 2009"/>
+#  </groups>
+#</clustat>
+#
+# Frank Clements <frank @ sixthtoe.net>
+
+import xml.dom.minidom
+import os
+import sys, socket
+import getopt
+
+def usage():
+    """
+    Display usage information
+    """
+    print """
+Usage: """ + sys.argv[0] + """ ([-s serviceName] | [-c])
+
+-c, --cluster
+   Gathers the overall cluster status for the local node
+-s, --service
+   Gets the stats of the named service
+-h, --help
+   Display this
+"""
+
+def getQuorumState(dom):
+    """
+    Get the quorum state.  This is a single inline element which only 
+    has attributes and no children elements.
+    """
+    quorumList = dom.getElementsByTagName('quorum')
+    quorumElement = quorumList[0]
+
+    return quorumElement.attributes['quorate'].value
+
+
+def getClusterName(dom):
+    """
+    Get the name of the cluster from the clustat output.
+    This assumes only a single cluster is running for the moment.
+    """
+    clusterList = dom.getElementsByTagName('cluster')
+    clusterElement = clusterList[0]
+
+    return clusterElement.attributes['name'].value
+
+
+def getLocalNodeState(dom):
+    """
+    Get the state of the local node
+    """
+    hostname = socket.gethostname()
+    nodesList = dom.getElementsByTagName('node')
+    nodeState = {}
+    
+    for node in nodesList:
+        if node.attributes['name'].value == hostname:
+            nodeState['name'] = node.attributes['name'].value
+            nodeState['state'] = node.attributes['state'].value 
+            nodeState['rgmanager'] = node.attributes['rgmanager'].value 
+
+        elif node.attributes['qdisk'].value == "1":
+            if node.attributes['state'].value != "1":
+                print "CRITICAL: Quorum disk " + node.attributes['name'].value + " is unavailable!"
+                sys.exit(2)   
+  
+    return nodeState
+
+
+def getServiceState(dom, service):
+    """ 
+    Get the state of the named service
+    """
+    groupList = dom.getElementsByTagName('group')
+    hostname = socket.gethostname()
+    serviceState = {}
+    
+    for group in groupList:
+        if group.attributes['name'].value == "service:"+service:
+            serviceState['owner'] = group.attributes['owner'].value
+            serviceState['state'] = group.attributes['state_str'].value
+                 
+    return serviceState
+
+
+def main():
+    try:
+        opts, args = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], 's:ch', ['service=', 'cluster', 'help'])
+    except getopt.GetoptError:
+        usage()
+        sys.exit(2)
+
+    for o, a in opts:
+        if o in ('-c', '--cluster'):
+            typeCheck = 'cluster'
+        if o in ('-s', '--service'):
+            typeCheck = 'service'
+            serviceName = a
+        if o in ('-h', '--help'):
+            usage()
+            sys.exit()
+
+    clustatOutput = os.popen('clustat -fx')
+    dom = xml.dom.minidom.parse(clustatOutput)
+
+    if typeCheck == 'cluster':
+
+        # First we query for the state of the cluster itself.
+        # Should it be found tha the cluste ris not quorate we alert and exit immediately
+        cluster = getClusterName(dom)
+        qState  = getQuorumState(dom)
+
+        # There are some serious problems if the cluster is inquorate so we simply alert immediately!
+        if qState != "1":
+            print "CRITICAL: Cluster " + cluster + " is inquorate!"
+            sys.exit(2)
+
+        # Now we find the status of the local node from clustat.
+        # We only care about the local state since this way we can tie the alert to the host.
+        nodeStates = getLocalNodeState(dom) 
+        if nodeStates['state'] != "1":
+            print "WARNING: Local node state is offline!"
+            sys.exit(1)
+        elif nodeStates['rgmanager'] != "1":
+            print "CRITICAL: RGManager service not running on " + nodeStates['name'] + "!"
+            sys.exit(1) 
+        else:
+            print "OK: Cluster node " + nodeStates['name'] + " is online and cluster is quorate."
+            sys.exit(0)
+
+    elif typeCheck == 'service':
+        serviceState = getServiceState(dom, serviceName)
+        if serviceState['state'] != 'started':
+            print "CRITICAL: Service " + serviceName + " on " + serviceState['owner'] + " is in " + serviceState['state'] + " state"
+            sys.exit(2)
+        else:
+            print "OK: Service " + serviceName + " on " + serviceState['owner'] + " is in " + serviceState['state'] + " state"
+            sys.exit(0)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()
diff --git a/misc/nrpe.d/check_rhcs.cfg b/misc/nrpe.d/check_rhcs.cfg
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+command[check_rhcs]=/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_rhcs -H rek-oraheart-p04 -c
+command[check_rhcs_service]=/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_rhcs -s '$ARG1$'
+