URL Transaction/Sequence Monitoring with NagiosXI

[jathomps]

I am new to Nagios and am in the midst of a demo of NagiosXI 2014. Our existing monitoring software has URL Sequence monitoring capabilities. We record (using the vendor's recorder software) a URL sequence where we might do something like login to a system, run a report, perform a few more clicks and then log out. The sequence is then uploaded to the monitoring software and we can set alerts for metrics like up, down, and time taken for each call.

I'm looking for the same or similar functionality in NagiosXI and I'm not having much luck. I see the Web Transaction monitor type, but I don't want to manually generate all of the XML necessary for WebInject. Is there some sort of recorder for WebInject or some other method of monitoring URL sequences that I'm not finding? Any help would be appreciated.

[slansing]

Have a look at Selenium, it might be what you are looking for:

http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... Nagios.pdf
Let us know if you have any questions.

[jathomps]

Doesn't Selenium actually open a browser and execute the sequence? I looked at it yesterday and that was my understanding. I'm more interested in Nagios programmatically running these tests rather than actually opening up a browser and running them.

[scottwilkerson]

There isn't a "recorder" for the webinject sequence, these have to manually be created via XML, but the run is programmatically done as you would like.

Selenium does in fact have open a browser and walk through the steps, but has a macro recorder you desire...

Ultimately, Nagios doesn't care which way you collect the data, it will use either