check_http

Melanie Pfefer melanie_pfefer at yahoo.co.uk
Fri Sep 7 12:07:43 CEST 2007


hi,

the configuration went ok as you've said. But now I
get a connection refused error.

Basically I want to monitor whether the apache server
on the remote machine is up or not.
thanx
--- Dennis Huenseler <huenseler at twt.de> wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> you can't define a check_command like >> check_http
> -H some -p foo << in the service deifinition.
> 
> Define a new check in the commands.cfg like
> 
> define command{
>         command_name    check_http_args
>         command_line    $USER1$/check_http -H $ARG1$
> -p $ARG2$
>         }
> 
> And in the service definition then try
> 
> define service{
>         use                            
> local-service 
>        ; Name of service template to use
>         host_name                       host2
>         service_description             HTTP
> availability
>         check_command                  
> check_http_args!host2!8080
>         }
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Dennis Hünseler
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net
> [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net]
> On Behalf Of Melanie Pfefer
> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 11:17 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] check_http
> 
> hi,
> 
> I ran this from the shell:
> 
> ./check_http -H host2 -p 8088
> HTTP OK HTTP/1.1 200 OK - 1192 bytes in 0.343
> seconds
> |time=0.342683s;;;0.000000 size=1192B;;;0
> 
> 
> now I added these lines in services.cfg:
> 
> define service{
>         use                            
> local-service 
>        ; Name of service template to use
>         host_name                       host2
>         service_description             HTTP
> availability
>         check_command                   check_http
> -H
> host2 -p 8080
>         }
> 
> when I ran ./nagios -v ../etc/nagios.cfg, I have
> this
> error:
> 
> 
> Error: Service check command 'check_http -H host2 -p
> 8080' specified in service 'HTTP availability' for
> host 'host2' not defined anywhere!
> 
> 
> PS: in commands.cfg, I have these:
> 
> # 'check_http' command definition
> define command{
>         command_name    check_http
>         command_line    $USER1$/check_http -H
> $HOSTADDRESS$
>         }
> 
> 
> thanks.
> 
> 
> 
>      
>
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