Single host, multiple HTTP services

[af.at.work at gmail.com]

The individual systems are remote, not publically available, and
monitored by the ISP.

I am looking to see what the end user is "seeing" for TTFB.

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 10:50 AM, William Muriithi
<w.muriithi at syncapse.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Just curious, why don't you bypass the load balancer and monitor the
> individual systems?  That may be more reliable and less complicated.
>
> Actually, may easy the process of figuring what has gone wrong when things
> break
>
> William
>
>
>
>
>
> On 11-07-21 12:20 PM, "af.at.work at gmail.com" <af.at.work at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Thanks for the tip on that - any way to take it a step further and
>>monitor a web transaction whilst logged in?
>>
>>On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Gary Every <gevery at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Service:
>>> define service {
>>>   use                   generic-check-store
>>>   hostgroup_name        Storefront
>>>   service_description   storename
>>>   check_command
>>> check_store!storename.com!/index.php?product_id=12345!"String to find"
>>>   contact_groups        Unix,ProductionSupport
>>>   notification_interval 1440
>>> }
>>> Check command:
>>> define command{
>>>         command_name    check_store
>>>         command_line    /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_http -I
>>>$HOSTADDRESS$
>>> -H $ARG1$ -s $ARG3$ -u $ARG2$
>>>         }
>>>
>>> That will check the ip with the specific hostname,  direct it to the
>>> appropriate page (/index.php?product_id=12345 and find whatever string
>>>you
>>> expect to see on that particular page ("String to find")
>>> This allows the same ip with different virtualhosts to be checked
>>> g.;
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 6:59 AM, dave stern - e-mail.pluribus.unum
>>> <dit.dash at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> One way might be to use the check_http plug-in but
>>>> have it look for a specific string in each web-page being hosted
>>>> and use the warn/critical-time returns for empirical threshold
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 9:02 AM,  <af.at.work at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> > Hey gang, I am having some difficulty getting a single host setup
>>>>that
>>>> > would have multiple HTTP services attached to it. The scenario is a
>>>> > load balanced group of web servers and I am looking to monitor
>>>> > numerous public facing web sites that would be bound to a single load
>>>> > balanced IP address. Any help would be most appreciated!
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
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>>>
>>>
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