Soap webservice response time

[gurkakrieg]

Maybe I'm missing something simple, but how would I check the response time from a webservice that uses soap? I've got the webinject plugin running and am getting back results from my post invocation, but I can't figure out how to measure the response time. If I call the test with a report type of "standard", the cmdline gives me perfdata that shows the response time.

Do I need to write a custom command to parse out that data from the returned string?

I feel like I'm missing something obvious here.

Mike

[slansing]

Can you share your check command with us as well as what you are inputting as arguments?

[gurkakrieg]

Sure,

Check command:

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define command{
    command_name            check-soap-response
    command_line            $USER1$/check_webinject -c /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/config.xml -o /etc/nagios/output/
}

config.xml:

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<report_type>standard</report_type>
    <testcasefile>/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/test1.xml</testcasefile>
<globalhttplog>onfail</globalhttplog>

I'm using check_webinject v. 1.74 on CentOS.

What I ended up doing was creating a new bash-based plugin named "check_responsetime.sh". Inside of it, I call the command_line from above, capture its output, then regex out the response time that I need to test against. The remainder of the shell script just checks for command-line options and outputs a Nagios-compliant output string and exit code based on the values I pass in. It's working pretty well.

I just wasn't sure if this was the right approach or a needless kludge.

Mike

[slansing]

That sounds similar to the path I would have taken. I don't think there are any solutions for this beyond what you have already done. If you can figure out a way to wrap that all together into one plugin I'm sure it would be a worth while submission to the exchange!