login in URL tests. Please help me..Thank you!

[Jeepha]

I have been tasked with a couple items, and I have no idea how to pull this off. We are dumping sitescope for Nagios Core.

I have seen a couple plugins out there..but they seem over-complicated.

Here is what I need to test:

https://www.SOMEURL.com/SearchASPs/Main ... wNotice=No
Look for "link to chinatown" (case-insensitive)
Check every 5 minutes
Timeout at 60 seconds
Check every 2 minutes when erroring (if possible--if not, that's OK)
Only alert after two errors seen
https://lta.SOMEURL.com/searchASPs/gw/ch/query.asp
Look for "UserId"
Timeout at 10 seconds
(rest of settings same as above)

[Jeepha]

Wow..the above post didnt come out at all what it is supposed to look like:

Basically, I am trying to hit a https server with the url and login information embedded. Then I want to look for a specific return from that url.

Make Sense?

[jsmurphy]

The check_http plugin which is a default with the plugins package should do what you want (in libexec run ./check_http --help for full info)

This is an example of what I think you are trying to achieve:
./check_http -H webserver --ssl -a username:password -u /webpath/to/check -r string-to-match

[Jeepha]

Thanks so much for your help!
Anyhow, I've gotten a little further, but I'm getting a weird result:

If I use the command: ./check_http -H lta.mysite.com --ssl -u /searchASPs/gw/ch/query.asp -r UserId
I get HTTP OK

if I use: ./check_http -H http://www.mysite.com --ssl -u /SearchASPs/MainMenu.ASP?UserId=WebTest4&Password=password&agree=yes -r People

I get: -bash: -r: command not found

I dont get why I can use -r now.

[Jeepha]

by the way. this board is adding the HTTP:// to www.mysite.com in the command. I didnt actually have that in the command I used.

[mguthrie]

That URL has some special shell characters in it. Try wrapping the url in single quotes.

[Jeepha]

Wow...you are awesome man. Works!!


One more question...I need to do DNS_Check and dont have the command...I loaded the latest plugins..but it isnt there. Are you familiar with this?

[mguthrie]

Are you just missing the command definition?

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define command {
       command_name                  		check_dns
       command_line                  		$USER1$/check_dns -H $HOSTNAME$ $ARG1$
}

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define service {
	host_name			www.amazon.com
	service_description		DNS IP Match
	use				xiwizard_website_dnsip_service
	check_command			check_dns!-a 72.21.194.1
}

[jsmurphy]

To the best of my knowledge the check_dns plugin is standard with the nagios plugins package http://nagiosplugins.org/download alternatively you could probably find one on nagios exchange http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Pl ... st/details, but before hand double check that you have the command definition in your commands.cfg

Edit: Mike beat me it seems

[Jeepha]

I appreciate your assistance. You guys are great.

Well, if you havnt figured it out yet, I am fairly green with nagios.

I am missing the check_dns plugin in my libexec folder. What I need is to figure out how to get the plugin loaded into my nagios installation.

I have the plugin nagios-plugins-1.4.15 downloaded and expanded in /root/downloads/
when I run the commands:
cd ~/downloads
./configure --with-nagios-user=nagios --with-nagios-group=nagios
make
make install

It all seems to run ok, but when I go to the directory /usr/local/nagios/libexec/ the plugins are not there. I know they are contained in this plugin distro...



Thank you!