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Not sure if this is the correct forum for this question, so apologises if its not.

We have a site I need to put a check against, to ensure the site is authenticating a user and then check the resulting page.
It uses form based authentication and I've not yet been able to find anything I can use to login to the page, I've tried a number of Perl Cpan modules but without success.

Attached is a screen shot of the webpage form and also the code from the source code of the webpage.

Thanks in advance
Tony

you sure can i'm about to head to bed so sorry for the brief response but this old archive has the answer


https://www.mail-archive.com/nagios-use ... 23865.html

Thank you, @nozlaf!

I'm interested to know why you want to test to see if you can log into your EPO server,

i'm a huge fan of EPO and nagios but not sure of the benefit of doing this

you could check to see if your epo server is running properly a number of different ways like checking for the services via nsclient

@delboy1966 please let us know if that linked thread helped.

Hi All

Thanks for your help.

@nozlaf
Its been requested. I agree you I could just check if the service is running and we do. However its been requested to ensure that:
1. Authentication is working
2. The page is displaying correctly
So that we aren't made aware of it when a manager can't login or the page isn't loading.

@tmcdonald
For some reason its not actually working, it just comes back with a connection refused using the check_http plugin.
However I have found that using the CPAN WWW::Mechanize module works fine.

Thanks again

Just to make sure - are we good to mark this thread as resolved then?