How check a website URL w/o burning a host?

[codeslinger]

How can I use the check_http or a similar plugin to check a URL for a website is responding?

If I define a check_http service with CCM, I get a readonly command "$USER1$/check_http -I $HOSTADDRESS$ $ARG1$" and the only way I can get it to work is to create a new host with the URL name.

Is there anyway to check a few websites w/o burning a host definition for each website? The free Nagios XI version only allows 7 hosts.

Thanks, Dave (Nagios Newbie)

[abrist]

You can use the url monitoring wizard to monitor as many urls as you want, though you will still be restricted to 7 hosts.

[codeslinger]

check_http used $HOSTADDRESS$ so each URL I monitored had to be a unique host. Using this url monitoring wizard, must each URL be considered a host? I have multiple URLs serviced on the same machine, which is also already defined as a host using an IP for snmp monitoring of disks, cpus, services etc. Thx, Dave

[abrist]

There are methods, but we will not discuss how to evade our license limitations on the forums.