how to monitor www.domain.com without host object

[August Simonelli]

Hi Nagios-ers ...

I need a little help with some logic here.

In our network we have the usual set up:

 web servers -> VIP -> Cache -> VIP

but then on top of the cache VIP we also use an external caching provider
(no prizes for guessing who that is, akamai) this means all requests for
www.mysite.com go to this external source via cname, which then gets
assigned a round-robin'ed IP. so it changes a lot.

now, i want to monitor all kinds of page response times, error codes and
such that i know check_http can do ...

and i can do that easily as a service definition for my web server host
objects, or my vip host object or my squid host objects etc.

but ... and here's where i get confused ...

i have no host objects for the external caches, so what IP do i do my
http_check tests against to ensure that i'm hitting our outermost layer as a
user would?

put another way ... how would you all go about monitoring a website that
isn't yours (say you wanted to monitor cnn.com for all these things, what ip
would you run your checks against? can i create a host with a domain name
only?

i'm sure this is easy and i'm just missing it ... so thanks for your gentle
help! :-)

august
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