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How can I use the check_http or a similar plugin to check a URL for a website is responding?

If I define a check_http service with CCM, I get a readonly command "$USER1$/check_http -I $HOSTADDRESS$ $ARG1$" and the only way I can get it to work is to create a new host with the URL name.

Is there anyway to check a few websites w/o burning a host definition for each website? The free Nagios XI version only allows 7 hosts.

Thanks, Dave (Nagios Newbie)

You can use the url monitoring wizard to monitor as many urls as you want, though you will still be restricted to 7 hosts.

check_http used $HOSTADDRESS$ so each URL I monitored had to be a unique host. Using this url monitoring wizard, must each URL be considered a host? I have multiple URLs serviced on the same machine, which is also already defined as a host using an IP for snmp monitoring of disks, cpus, services etc. Thx, Dave

There are methods, but we will not discuss how to evade our license limitations on the forums.