Error Message with check_http

[L. Mark Stone]

On Wednesday, April 27, 2005 04:44 pm, Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote:
> Yes that's right. If I wanted to provide a username and password,
> would I add it to the end of the line in the nrpe.cfg file?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
> [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of L. Mark
> Stone
> Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 4:35 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Error Message with check_http
>
> On Wednesday, April 27, 2005 04:21 pm, Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote:
> > Hi there --
> >
> > I am attempting to get the status of the Apache web server on a
> > remote host. To that end I am using the check_http plugin.
> > The error message that I am getting when I run the plugin either
> > manually or automatically is:
> >
> > HTTP WARNING: HTTP/1.1 401 Authorization Required
> >
> > Can someone tell me what I need to do to correct this? Thanks.
>
> As Martha would say "It's a good thing."
>
> That message is just the web server's reply to the plugin's request.
> The plugin is working fine.
>
> If you browsed to the site you would be challenged for a
> username:password, yes?

Why put a username and password to a restricted site in a plain-text 
file on the monitoring machine?

Furthermore, the information you get back is valuable in and of itself:

1. That you get any response tells you the web server is up and running.
2. That you get the specific response you do tells you that 
authentication on the site is working.

What's wrong with that?

Mark

P.S. Easier to follow the thread if you bottom-post, and no need to 
reply to my email address in addition to the list.

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