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Hello Nagios Team

We've asked you some time ago about being able to do end-2-end monitoring with Web Portals (since Webinject or Curl do not work in many cases)
Nagios cam up with Selenium integration, which is really requires a tune up (in our opinion)

Please check on http://www.it610.com/article/2255115.htm article explaining Java integration instead of Perl

Also, please comment on the following:
Current NAGIOS <> SELENIUM integration involves IDE and Selenium.RC. Only works with Firefox and Perl. When we've tried using it in Production mode, we run into many issues with scripts being unstable or us not being able to catch dialogs with IDE. Tried searching for professional advice and were told that we should be using IDE or RC (deprecated/not supported). Oh, Firefox driver is no longer supported either even in RC ver. 3 (not directly anyways).

So the next logical step would be in using WebDriver integration with Nagios, while integrating with Windows-based hosts and IE&Chrome.
Would this be something you can do? Something based of https://github.com/objectified/selmon ?

Also, would you update existing integration documentation for RC 3.0.0 (no longer beta) and Firefox-specific selenium drivers?

dlukinski wrote:Please check on http://www.it610.com/article/2255115.htm article explaining Java integration instead of Perl

The RC server was leveraged for our documentation because it's super easy to set up. As it has been deprecated for a while and is no longer part of Selenium 3, updating our documentation seems logical. It's tricky to use Java with remote WebDrivers because both platforms are much more strict and do not work with the current Selenium IDE. End-users like the IDE because it's easy; Just click around and record actions. You don't need to be an expert at writing test cases to check on the status of your web application this way.

dlukinski wrote:Also, would you update existing integration documentation for RC 3.0.0 (no longer beta) and Firefox-specific selenium drivers?

This was something I looked into a few months back. It's on our radar, but the documentation is going to need to be rebuilt essentially from the ground up so this will take some time.

mcapra wrote:

dlukinski wrote:Please check on http://www.it610.com/article/2255115.htm article explaining Java integration instead of Perl

The RC server was leveraged for our documentation because it's super easy to set up. As it has been deprecated for a while and is no longer part of Selenium 3, updating our documentation seems logical. It's tricky to use Java with remote WebDrivers because both platforms are much more strict and do not work with the current Selenium IDE. End-users like the IDE because it's easy; Just click around and record actions. You don't need to be an expert at writing test cases to check on the status of your web application this way.

dlukinski wrote:Also, would you update existing integration documentation for RC 3.0.0 (no longer beta) and Firefox-specific selenium drivers?

This was something I looked into a few months back. It's on our radar, but the documentation is going to need to be rebuilt essentially from the ground up so this will take some time.

So would you be re-creating documentation for Selenium 3 integration?
Agree about IDE part for as long as it works.

dlukinski wrote: So would you be re-creating documentation for Selenium 3 integration?

Yup! It's on our to-do list, but I can't give a definitive timeframe for completion of the new docs.

mcapra wrote:

dlukinski wrote: So would you be re-creating documentation for Selenium 3 integration?

Yup! It's on our to-do list, but I can't give a definitive timeframe for completion of the new docs.

OK, thank you. Please close this one.