Web Interface (https) monitoring via Nagios Core

[Sundar]

Dear Forum,

Please advise if there's any plugin to monitor https Interface (Inbound & Outbound Interfaces) using Nagios Core and which are the metrics the plugin can monitor. Also, any configuration related documentation around it. Thanks

Regards,
Sundar

[tmcdonald]

Our standard check_http plugin will check if an HTTPS interface is up, but it will not be able to tell you anything about the traffic in and out of that port. Is that what you are looking for?

[Sundar]

Yes. I could see check_http & check_https, is there any difference between these plugins?

Do they just monitor the URL (interface) availability?

Could you please share any details on how to get it configured? Thanks

Rgds,

[rkennedy]

When you mention interface, what are you referring to?

Where are you seeing the check_https plugin?

Check_http is fairly easy to use, you can see all of the configurable options by running it with the -h parameter. Here's an example that will check https://google.com (-S flag) -

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[root@localhost libexec]# ./check_http -H google.com -S -f follow
HTTP OK: HTTP/1.1 200 OK - 154680 bytes in 0.664 second response time |time=0.664228s;;;0.000000 size=154680B;;;0