check_http question?

[Hugh Jones]

I've used something like "time lynx -source http://blah.thing
>/dev/null" if I want the time that it takes to retreive it. In a bash
shell script you can assign the output to a variable and use sed and cut
etc to retrieve numeric values which you could then evaluate...

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf 
> Of Reuben Pearse
> Sent: 30 April 2004 10:03
> To: jnichols at pbp.net
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> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] check_http question?
> 
> 
> You could try using curl
> 
> http://curl.haxx.se/
> 
> It is a command line tool for retrieving webpages. When grabbing 
> webpages you can get it to report how many seconds it takes 
> to download 
> a page. You could probably wrap up a call to curl into a Nagios check 
> script.
> 
> Has anyone done this already?
> 
> --
> 
> Reuben Pearse
> Senior Systems Consultant
> reuben at presence-systems.com
> 
> 
> 
> Jonathan Nichols wrote:
> 
> > Greetings!
> >
> > Can the check_http plugin also measure page load times, or does it 
> > just check to see if the http port is open?
> >
> > I have a project that I've been tasked with - need to measure page 
> > load times & also graph them.
> >
> > Can I do this with Nagios? If yes, how could I graph this? I know, 
> > "rrdtool" or something.. but has anyone done this? :)
> >
> > Thanks for any information! :D
> >
> > -Jonathan
> >
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