Nagios Check_http question (the -u option)

[Mike McClure]

> As I have researched the -u option of Check_http, I have one question left.   It
> seems as if using the -u option is trully only for checking the latency and
> performance of remotely retrieving a specific web page.   This does not however seem
> to actually check whether the web server (Apache) is up and functional.

If the web server wasn't up, how could the web page be retrieved?  A web page
retrieval implies that the server is up.  Or at least one in a cluster.

>If that
> assumption is true, then I have to use another plugin to actualy check to see if the
> web server is up.

I suppose that a connect to TCP/80 would be another way to just check if there's any
service/daemon listening.  But it could be anything, not just the web server.

>
> Am I  correct?   If so, any suggestions as to which plugin to use to check remote
> web servers on Windows, Solaris and  and Linux boxes?

I think they are all the same, no matter what platform they are on.  They just need
to  comply with the HTTP spec.

>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> Larry  C
>
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