Executing POST statement

[stecino]

I ran it, it's asking for a password. Which I don't remember. May I ask what will this give me?

[abrist]

Did you replace "testdude" and "password" in

'username=testdude&password=password'

with your username and password (for the post)? If so, then something you trying to do requires root or elevated privileges to run as it worked when you ran it from the cli as the "root" user. Lets check the permissions on "check_http":

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ls -la /path/to/plugins/check_http

[stecino]

Here is what I have

[nagios@stageutil01 libexec]$ ls -al | grep http
-rwxr-xr-x 1 nagios nagios 321432 May 12 2010 check_http

The username and password is used as part of the POST data that's passed into the applications API

[abrist]

Alright. So if you run the command as "root" it works, but if you run it as "nagios" is fails waiting for login credentials? I ask because most service check plugins in nagios run as the "nagios" user, not "root".

[stecino]

I was able to switch to nagios

-bash-3.00$ ./check_http -H stageweb01 -w 2 -c 4 -u /fans/rs/login? -p 8088 -P 'username=testdude&password=password'
HTTP OK: HTTP/1.1 200 OK - 1590 bytes in 0.120 second response time |time=0.120300s;2.000000;4.000000;0.000000 size=1590B;;;0
-bash-3.00$ id
uid=10003(nagios) gid=888(nagios)

It works as well

[abrist]

Does you check work without the "?" at the end of the uri option? I ask because it was missing earlier in your config post.

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define service{
use generic-service
hostgroup_name stage_webservers
service_description Web_sso2_8088_login
check_command check_http!2!4!/fans/rs/login?!8088!'username=testdude&password=password'
notifications_enabled 1
}

[stecino]

I updated my command definition, it fails both with ? and without ?

[abrist]

Can you post the command definition for "check_http" from your commands.cfg file?

[stecino]

I ended up creating a separate command definition called check_http_POST and changed my service definition to reference this command and it worked.