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Hi all,

I would like to use the check_http plugin to check on the status of a website and if the get request returns anything but 415, I get a critical. So 415 is the OK status for that server.

Will that be something that I can use Nagios's default check_http plugin or I should use a custom made perl plugin like this? https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/P ... pt/details

All I would like to do is for Nagios to make a get request to that webservice (-H the host's IP and -p 80) and if it gets a 415 response then that shows my service is up and running. Anything else, would mean that the service has stopped.

Or can I just use check_tcp? If I get a connection refused, will Nagios send a notification?

Thanks in advance

Check_http should work fine for this. You'll want to use the -e flag. Here's an example of it - Does that answer your question?

Just wanted to add that you can take a look at what flags/options are available for a plugin via cli.

For Nagios Core go to:
From libexec, run:
./plugin-name -h

...to get the help info about the plugin.

rkennedy wrote:Check_http should work fine for this. You'll want to use the -e flag. Here's an example of it -

Code: Select all

[root@suse11 libexec]# ./check_http -H nagios.com -e 301
HTTP OK: Status line output matched "301" - 522 bytes in 0.089 second response time |time=0.089382s;;;0.000000 size=522B;;;0

Does that answer your question?

PERFECT! thanks much! This was exactly what I was looking for.

bwallace,
Thanks for your reply, let me try that out then.

Good to hear! I'll close this thread out now, if you need any assistance in the future feel free to open a new one.