new_contents: #!/usr/bin/env python
  
  """Sensu check script: to see if any index is in non-green state.
  This is a special check script to be executed only on
  the coldevents cluster. We want to exclude indices for
  day-2 , since they are in the process of being restored
  nightly in coldevents cluster. During this process the cluster
  state is red/yellow.
  
  This script is run by Sensu at regular intervals.
  """
  
  import socket
  import sys
  import httplib
  import json
  import datetime
  
  CHECK_PASSING = 0
  CHECK_WARNING = 1
  CHECK_FAILING = 2
  
  
  # Print hostname so the alert will identify which cluster had the issue
  # issue.
  myname = socket.gethostname()
  
  
  try:
      conn = httplib.HTTPConnection("localhost:9200")
      conn.request("GET", "/_cluster/health?pretty&level=indices")
      r1 = conn.getresponse()
      if r1.status >= 300:  # pylint: disable=E1101
          msg = "check_es_indexstatus: host=%s received non-2xx resp=%s"%(myname, r1.status)
          print msg
          sys.exit(CHECK_FAILING)
      respjson = json.loads(r1.read())
      now = datetime.datetime.utcnow()
      twodaysago = datetime.datetime(year=now.year, month=now.month, day=now.day) - datetime.timedelta(days=2)
      twodays_str = twodaysago.strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
      for index in respjson["indices"]:
          if respjson["indices"][index]["status"] == "yellow":
              if twodays_str in index :
                  continue
              msg = "check_es_indexstatus: host=%s index=%s status=YELLOW"%(myname, index)
              print msg
              sys.exit(CHECK_WARNING)
          elif respjson["indices"][index]["status"] == "red":
              if twodays_str in index :
                  continue
              msg = "check_es_indexstatus: host=%s index=%s status=RED"%(myname, index)
              print msg
              sys.exit(CHECK_FAILING)
  except Exception, e:
      print "%s : exception=%s"%(myname, e)
      sys.exit(CHECK_FAILING)
  
  
  sys.exit(CHECK_PASSING)
  
subject: add a check for coldevents specific indices checks