Checking External URLs

[Corey Quinn]

What's the canonically "proper" way to check an external website (that I don't control) within Nagios?  WHat I've done historically has been to define a dummy "urlhost" that I then hang various check_http checks off of, but that seems wrong somehow.

In talking to other folks in #nagios on freenode, another approach is defining it as:

define host{
        use             web-server
        host_name       s3.amazonaws.com
        hostgroups      prod-URL
        address         s3.amazonaws.com
        check_command   check_http!-f follow
        contact_groups  admins-email
}

works, but then there's a warning thrown during pre-flight due to the lack of services affiliated with this "host."

What's the "correct" way to pull this off?

-- Corey / KB1JWQ
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