check_http

tom.welsh at bt.com tom.welsh at bt.com
Fri Sep 7 15:24:26 CEST 2007


Dont ya just hate it when that happens

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From: Melanie Pfefer [mailto:melanie_pfefer at yahoo.co.uk]
Sent: Fri 07/09/2007 13:42
To: Welsh,T,Tom,XSL4A C; huenseler at twt.de
Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] check_http



I was entering the wrong port number :S

thanks bunches.
--- tom.welsh at bt.com wrote:

> Hi Melanie,
>
> On your Nagios host can you telnet to port 8080 from
> the shell? This will ensure you are actually
> connecting to the box.
>
> I can see further down that you ran check_http and
> got a result.
>
> Are you running the plugin as the nagios user?
>
> Regards
>
> Tom
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net
> [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net]
> On Behalf Of Melanie Pfefer
> Sent: 07 September 2007 11:08
> To: Dennis Huenseler
> Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] check_http
>
> 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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