do you absolutetly need an agent on the machine to monitor

[gmills]

word is getting out how we are ( with your great assistance ), using Nagios Core. Maybe it will get attention and we can get XI.. fingers crossed.

anyway, my understanding is Nagios Needs an Agent on the machine it is monitoring.

I was just contacted by a person in the company that has services on the company cloud and has not access or ability to place an agent on the box. however, they need to monitor services. basically only HTTP services/calls.

can Nagios be implemented/configured to do an HTTP call with no agent to report health?

would you know how this may be accomplished?

[aanderson]

You can use the standard check_http plugin to interrogate http services running on port 80 or any other port. I use this to monitor website reachability and SSL certificate expiry. It will return the html content which you can parse for info with the -s option.

hth
Aidan

[gmills]

EXCELLENT!!!

thank you!

[aanderson]

No problem

[mbellerue]

Thanks for jumping in, Aiden, and welcome to the forums! It looks like you took care of this thread pretty handily, so I'll go ahead and lock it.