Monitoring web applications with Nagios

[Ian Marlier]

> From: Ivan Fetch <ifetch at du.edu>
> Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 11:41:17 -0700 (MST)
> To: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Monitoring web applications with Nagios
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> 
>     What experience do folks have with monitoring web applications using
> nagios?  Specifically we have "Blackboard Learning System" and "Sunguard
> Luminous" 
> for which we'd like to monitor the ability to login and interact with a
> few interfaces (e.g. interacting with adding / removing items to a class
> in Blackboard, something simelar with the Luminous calendar).
> 
> 
>     I've looked into web inject (http://www.webinject.org) but I think it's
> inability to handle client-side javascript might be an issue.  I know
> there are comercial monitoring products which have "web macros" to
> accomplish this sort of thing - I'm not sure of their implementation
> details though.
> 
> 
>     Is anyone monitoring web applications (I'm particularly interested in
> Blackboard and 
> Luminous, but will take what I can get) in Nagios?

I'm not, but a possible alternate implementation would use GreaseMonkey and
Selenium to run scheduled tests, and e-mail the results.  Might even be able
to get it to submit the results to Nagios somehow (passive check
notification, for example)....




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