check_http - user+password - string required

[Jim Perrin]

On 2/21/06, Tom Brown <tom.brown at goodtechnology.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Trying to get check_http to check a site that requires authorization and
> also the check needs to expect a certain string back in the response.
>
> So far i have
>
> ./check_http -H www.foo.net -u /some/where/ -a user:pass
> OK - HTTP/1.1 302 Found - 0.087 second response time
> |time=0.086617s;;;0.000000 size=491B;;;0
>
> but what can i add to this to make it so that a string i expect is
> checked. I hae tried all sensible options i can tell from the help.

Look at check_website or webinject on nagiosexchange. Both plugins let
you get much more in-depth as far as website checks. For example, we
do an indepth (check_website) check once an hour, and more frequent
checks of "is the website responding"(check_http).


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