Nagios HTTP monitoring

Jerad Riggin jriggin at gmail.com
Fri Jun 22 15:14:45 CEST 2007


Where do I use the --help switch?  I've tried in the terminal but I get a
command not found error.  Thanks for the links btw.

On 6/22/07, GJP <gjp at gpnet.nl> wrote:
>
> Yes ofcourse there is. This one is for Samba: www.samba.org
>
> And like Patrick said if you do a "check_http -h" it tells you what ik can
> do.
> And if you're on a common linux distro. you can find files with:
>
> "locate [filename]"
>
> Then I would also check:
>
> http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/beginners.html
> http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/monitoring-publicservices.html
>
> And I would take your time for all this. My linux experience is over 8
> years
> and it took me three weeks to have a full blown secure sms sending Nagios
> setup.
>
> Goodluck!
>
> G
>
> On Thursday 21 June 2007 23:24:43 Jerad Riggin wrote:
> > Is there any link to information about that?  Like I said this is
> basically
> > the 2nd day I've used Linux and Nagios so much of this seems like a
> > different language to me.  Thanks for the info.
> >
> > On 6/21/07, GJP <gjp at gpnet.nl> wrote:
> > > Hi Jerad,
> > >
> > > If you mean http auth, this is what I use.
> > >
> > > The check_command in the service definition:
> > >
> > > check_command
> > > check_http_auth!host.example.com!/path!user:password
> > >
> > > And the command definition.
> > >
> > > define command{
> > >        command_name    check_http_auth
> > >        command_line    /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_http -H $ARG1$ -u
> > > $ARG2$ -a $ARG3$
> > >        }
> > >
> > > But if you mean authentication within a windows AD domain. Maybe Samba
> > > can help. Because then you can make your linux server a member of the
> AD
> > > domain.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Gerard.
> > >
> > > On Thursday 21 June 2007 22:48:08 Jerad Riggin wrote:
> > > > I'm new to Linux and new to Nagios so this may sound very stupid.
> > > > Basically I have everything up and running, ping tests work, http
> tests
> > > > work, and the smtp test I have setup works.  If the host goes down I
> > > > get
> > >
> > > a
> > >
> > > > host down alert and a host up alert once the problem is
> resolved.  Is
> > >
> > > there
> > >
> > > > a way to have Nagios send me an alert for critical status?  I'm
> pretty
> > >
> > > sure
> > >
> > > > I have that setup but it isn't working.  After this I went ahead and
> > > > set
> > >
> > > up
> > >
> > > > basic HTTP monitoring for all of our servers, however, 403 errors
> are
> > >
> > > not
> > >
> > > > sending any notifications to me.  Also, I'm trying to monitor the
> CRM
> > >
> > > site
> > >
> > > > on our windows domain however since the Linux box is obviously not
> on
> > >
> > > the
> > >
> > > > domain, it can't authenticate when hitting the site so it can't find
> > > > the string i've specified.  Any ideas on how to make nagios
> > > > authenticate and then check the string?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
>
>
>
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