Nagios Check_http question (the -u option)

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Crowder [mailto:CrowderLG at ldschurch.org]
> Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 2:57 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Probably a dumb question, but here goes.
> 
> As I have researched the -u option of Check_http, I have one question
> left.   It seems as if using the -u option is trully only for checking
the
> latency and performance of remotely retrieving a specific web page.
This
> does not however seem to actually check whether the web server
(Apache) is
> up and functional.  If that assumption is true, then I have to use
another
> plugin to actualy check to see if the web server is up.
> 
> Am I  correct?   If so, any suggestions as to which plugin to use to
check
> remote web servers on Windows, Solaris and  and Linux boxes?
> 

The check_http plugin doesn't care what web server is vending the
page... It could be a perl script cat'ing a file to port 80 for all it
cares. If a page is vended by the web server, doesn't that directly
imply that the web server is up and functional? What other test are you
interested in? If you're concerned that the page is vended fully,
consider adding the '-s' option to your command definition like '-s
\/html'. Then it will only be OK if it sees '/html' in the stream.

--
Marc


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