Check_http status 503 gives 200 OK

Travis Runyard travisrunyard at gmail.com
Tue Nov 20 10:26:00 CET 2012


He's not using host headers in his definition.


On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Joerg Linge <pitchfork at ederdrom.de> wrote:

> again
>
> check_http -H .... -u http://www.testsomething.com
>
> is a proxy request. NOT an valid HTTP request
>
> Joerg
>
> Am 20.11.2012 um 08:35 schrieb Jaap van Arragon <j.vanarragon at lukkien.com
> >:
>
> > Herewith
> >
> > define service{
> >        use                                     generic-service_24x7
> >        host_name                               www1
> >        service_description             check http <url>
> >        check_command                   check_http! -u
> > http://www.testsomething.com -w 5 -c 8
> > }
> >
> > This gives me a
> >
> > HTTP OK: HTTP/1.1 200 OK - 414 bytes in 0.002 second response time
> >
> > Back.
> >
> >
> > But in the browser the check gives me a
> >
> > 503 statuscode back.
> >
> > The Nagios check_http script isn't detecting this 503 error message.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Jaap
> >
> >
> > On 11/20/12 8:20 AM, "Joerg Linge" <pitchfork at ederdrom.de> wrote:
> >
> >> Please provide a complete example!
> >> check_http works correct since years
> >>
> >> Joerg
> >>
> >> Am 19.11.2012 um 23:00 schrieb "Jaap van Arragon" <
> j.vanarragon at lukkien.com>:
> >>
> >>> Hey Joerg,
> >>>
> >>> The 4xx and 3xx error are handeld correctly but not the 5xx error ;-)
> >>>
> >>> any ideas?
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>> Jaap
> >>> From: Joerg Linge [mailto:pitchfork at ederdrom.de]
> >>> To: Nagios Users List [mailto:nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net]
> >>> Sent: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 18:07:52 +0100
> >>> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Check_http status 503 gives 200 OK
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Your example
> >>>
> >>> /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_http -I <ip address> -u http://<url>
> -w1 -c2
> >>>
> >>> is a proxy request!
> >>>
> >>> -I = ip address to connect to
> >>> -H = HTTP/1.1 Host Header
> >>> -u = relative url to fetch without protocol infos like http://
> >>>
> >>> some examples
> >>>
> >>> check nagios.org
> >>>
> >>> OMD[gearman]:~/lib/nagios/plugins$ ./check_http -H nagios.org
> >>> HTTP OK: HTTP/1.1 200 OK - 54919 bytes in 1.703 second response time
> >>> |time=1.703114s;;;0.000000 size=54919B;;;0
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> OMD[gearman]:~/lib/nagios/plugins$ host nagios.org
> >>> nagios.org has address 96.126.126.159
> >>>
> >>> ok, nagios .org runns on 96.126.126.159
> >>> lets check a non existing page. we got 404!
> >>>
> >>> OMD[gearman]:~/lib/nagios/plugins$ ./check_http -I 96.126.126.159 -H
> >>> nagios.org -u /404
> >>> HTTP WARNING: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found - 17141 bytes in 0.536 second
> response
> >>> time |time=0.536015s;;;0.000000 size=17141B;;;0
> >>>
> >>> lets ask nagios.org for icinga.org ;) and we will get a 302
> >>>
> >>> OMD[gearman]:~/lib/nagios/plugins$ ./check_http -I 96.126.126.159 -H
> >>> icinga.org -u /
> >>> HTTP OK: HTTP/1.1 302 Found - 242 bytes in 1.837 second response time
> >>> |time=1.837209s;;;0.000000 size=242B;;;0
> >>>
> >>> Joerg
> >>>
> >>> Am 19.11.2012 um 17:14 schrieb Jaap van Arragon <
> j.vanarragon at lukkien.com>:
> >>>
> >>>> Thank you for your reply.
> >>>>
> >>>> I¹ve tried the check without the ip adress option but it makes no
> >>>> difference.
> >>>>
> >>>> Any other ideas?
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On 11/19/12 2:29 PM, "Ryan Edwards" <wyild1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> You said u are using it like so:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Check:
> >>>>> /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_http -I <ip address> -u http://<url>
> -w1
> >>>>> -c2
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Maybe drop the IP address? I dunno, maybe cuz you have both IP and
> the url
> >>>>> its causing problems. Maybe its replying on the IP, but not on the
> URL your
> >>>>> providing. You prob only need one or the other if im not mistaken
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Cheers!
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 7:14 AM, Jaap van Arragon
> >>>>> <j.vanarragon at lukkien.com> wrote:
> >>>>>> Hello,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Does anyone know why it gives me a 200 back?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> If you need more info, I will gladly provide it ;-)
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Thank you.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Regards,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Jaap
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On 11/16/12 11:54 AM, "Jaap van Arragon" <j.vanarragon at lukkien.com>
> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Hello,
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> I¹m trying to use the check_http plugin to verify if one of our
> website
> >>>>>>> is
> >>>>>>> available.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> When I check our website it gives me a 200 OK status code back
> even when
> >>>>>>> the
> >>>>>>> website isn¹t available en the URL gives me a 503 status code
> through the
> >>>>>>> browser.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> After some searching I came across the post below:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.network.nagios.plugins.devel/485
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> This states that there is a bug in check_http. The only thing is
> that the
> >>>>>>> post
> >>>>>>> is from 2003 so I expect that the necessary changes are already in
> the
> >>>>>>> new
> >>>>>>> release.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Things I¹ve tried:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> - recompiled the latest version of the check_http plugin but the
> >>>>>>> necessary
> >>>>>>> changes seems to be integrated there already.
> >>>>>>> - updated the plugins package to the latest version for our release
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Check:
> >>>>>>> /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_http -I <ip address> -u http://<url>
> -w1
> >>>>>>> -c2
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Packages:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> ii nagios-images 0.5
> >>>>>>> ii nagios-nrpe-plugin 2.12-4ubuntu1.10.04.1
> >>>>>>> ii nagios-nrpe-server 2.12-4ubuntu1.10.04.1
> >>>>>>> ii nagios-plugins 1.4.14-1ubuntu1
> >>>>>>> ii nagios-plugins-basic 1.4.14-1ubuntu1
> >>>>>>> ii nagios-plugins-standard 1.4.14-1ubuntu1
> >>>>>>> ii nagios3 3.2.0-4ubuntu2.2
> >>>>>>> ii nagios3-cgi 3.2.0-4ubuntu2.2
> >>>>>>> ii nagios3-common 3.2.0-4ubuntu2.2
> >>>>>>> ii nagios3-core 3.2.0-4ubuntu2.2
> >>>>>>> ii nagiosgrapher 1.7.1-1
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Does anyone know why it gives me a status 200 OK back? At the
> moment I
> >>>>>>> can't
> >>>>>>> rely on my Nagios checks..
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Thank you in advance
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Regards
> >>>>>>> Jaap
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
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