Using nagios check_httpfor webbasedauthentication

[Venugopal S]

Hi Peter,

To the extent followed with some googling, there is no help on this.
Dropping it off for now.

Thanks
Venu

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter.Ringe at web.de [mailto:Peter.Ringe at web.de]
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2009 4:02 AM
To: Venugopal S
Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Using nagios check_httpfor
webbasedauthentication

Hi Venu,


do you know 'check_website'.
I use it for monitoring a handful websites. It's able to follow
applications even with dynamically generated URLs. As far as I remember
(I dont need it) it follows redirects.

It' worth a look.

Regards, Peter


Venugopal S schrieb:
> Hi Marc,
>
> Will try this out on Tuesday. Thanks for your immense help.
>
> Happy weekend for all of you there.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Powell [mailto:marc at ena.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 7:17 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Using nagios check_httpfor
> webbasedauthentication
>
>
> On Jan 22, 2009, at 11:59 PM, Venugopal S wrote:
>
>> Hi Joerge,
>>
>> As you said "welcome venu" is not in the response in spite of giving
>> valid credentials. That is why I am wondering !
>> Even I gave the -v switch and found in the HTML response that
"welcome
>> venu" is not found. And the response HTML is the same as signin.do.
It
>> must have thrown me the login success page isn't it ?
>
>> ./check_http -I 199.107.237.196 -H  ww12.1800flowers.com -u /
>> signin.do -p 80 -P "email=svenugopaal at gmail.com&password=podhum" -s
>> "welcome venu"
>
>
>
> Hi Venu,
>
> I created an account to test and see that I gave you some incorrect
> information. Looking at the form HTML, the URL that the form
> information is actually posted to is /signinaction.do, not /signin.do
> so that will need to change that in the command definition.
>
> Now with the correct URL and successful login, I see that the success
> 'page' returned is just a 302 redirect that bounces you to
>
> Location: https://ww12.1800flowers.com/customerwelcome.do?cmReg=L
>
> Unfortunately we come to a stopping point here. check_http will need
> to follow that redirect if it's going to see the text you're expecting

> to see on the final page and it can do that with  --onredirect=follow.

> The problem is that the coding of the final landing page appears to
> absolutely require the presence of a login cookie to know that you're
> logged in. check_http does not pass cookies as part of a redirect (but

> can be programmed to pass static cookies using the -k switch). The
> cookies that are being passed to us appear to be temporary session
> cookies anyway so I'm not sure how useful it would be to create
> another check for the customerwelcome.do page.
>
> What I ended up with is --
>
> ./check_http  -I 199.107.237.196 -H  ww12.1800flowers.com -u /
> signinaction.do -p 80 -P "email=myaddress&password=mypass" -e 302 -r
> html --invert-regex
>
> This will ensure that we see the 302 redirect returned by a successful

> login and that we do not see the word 'html' in a web page instead of
> the 302 redirect (meaning the login failed). Essentially, you'll know
> that the login worked, but not that the customerwelcome.do page was
> actually displayed. That may be enough for your needs.
>
> --
> Marc
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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