[PMX:#] Check_http via proxy?

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Collins, Steve [mailto:Steve.Collins at industry.gov.au]
> Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2004 10:22 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] [PMX:#] Check_http via proxy?
> 
> I need to check several hosts at our outsourced provider.  With anal
> security rules, etc., we're refused direct ping access to them - thus
no
> check_host_alive.  However, we can see the IP address.  In order to
see

Check_host_alive doesn't have to be an ICMP ping. That's just a good
all-around default.

> the IP, the Nagios server needs to understand about our proxy server
to
> see the remote servers.  Is there some way we can configure check_http
to
> use a proxy?

Yes, check_http --help. By example --

define command{
        command_name    check_by_proxy
        command_line    $USER1$/check_http -H my.destination.host -I
$HOSTADDRESS$ --onredirect follow -p 8080 -wt 20 -ct 30 -to 35 -u
http://my.destination.host/url -R \/HTML
        }

$HOSTADDRESS$ would be the address of your proxy. My.destination.host is
the host you're wanting to check (as it would be passed in an HTTP HOST:
header). Of course, either one of those values could be variable
depending on how you set up your command and service definitions.

> 

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--
Marc



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