Adding plugin to Nagios

[Apurv]

Hello People,

I am here again with a new query....

I need to add a few domains to nagios and check there response(uptime/downtime). I could find a plugin named "check_website_response.sh"

Also found the command definition to be inserted in commands.cfg....

Any idea how to get this displayed on web-interface..... Could you please provide me the info on how to get this implemented ??

Also Box293, if possible could u lemme know what all new things u have tried and implemented?? So that I can try them on my end too

[jdalrymple]

I think the check_http from the nagios plugins package does what you want:

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[jdalrymple@localhost ~]$ /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_http www.google.com
HTTP OK: HTTP/1.0 200 OK - 19316 bytes in 0.148 second response time |time=0.148163s;;;0.000000 size=19316B;;;0

You could have a command for this that looks something like:

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define command {
       command_name                             check_http
       command_line                             $USER1$/check_http $ARG1$
}

[Apurv]

Hello jdalrymple,

Thanks for your reply.

The website is hosted on a windows server. Hence I need to check the domain using some check on windows machine. Is there any command in nsclient++ that can check website??

[tmcdonald]

It doesn't matter what OS is hosting the website, check_http just cares about the HTTP connection itself, the web page contents, etc. It will work just fine against your Windows-based website. It runs on the Nagios machine and you don't need to use NSClient++ unless there is something blocking requests from the Nagios server.

[Apurv]

Hi tmcdonald,

Thanks for your reply!

When I try to check using "check_http" I am getting time out errors. Could you please let me know.. what I could be missing out?

Should I open any ports on that windows server? OR Anything else that I need to do??

[tgriep]

Could you post how you are running the check?
Can you run the check from the command line and post back the output?

[Apurv]

Hello Guys,

Thanks for the help!

check_http plugin solved the issue as u guys had suggested me earlier. The silly mistake I was making is not adding "-H" while checking the same.

Once I added -H in the check command... I started getting the desired output.

Thanks alot.