Checking OWA

Jon Angliss jon at netdork.net
Sat Jun 13 02:26:44 CEST 2009 

On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:43:29 -0700, <p1 at fhri.org> wrote:

>Trying to use check_http to monitor OWA.  I can monitor the site's
>response, SSL and even login, but not content, which would be a truly
>thorough test I used to be able to do some time back.  Getting stuck
>with this error, seen in verbose output from the plugin:
> 
>This page uses frames, but your browser doesn't support them.

That's exactly what I'd expect to see when you don't actually request
the page with content, and just call the main frameset page.

> 
>I see the same error if I disable frame support in Firefox.  Anyone else
>monitoring OWA content?

What content are you actually looking for? Is there a specific email
you're looking for?  If so, you don't want to call /exchange/nagios,
you want to look for the INBOX instead.  If you view the source of the
frameset page, you will see two frame calls, the body looks something
like this:

<FRAMESET>
  <FRAME name="navbar" src="./?Cmd=navbar">
  <FRAME name="viewer" src="Inbox/?Cmd=contents">
  <NOFRAMES>
    <BODY><P>This page uses frames, but your browser doesn't support
them.</P></BODY>
 </NOFRAMES>
</FRAMESET>

Note, I have trimmed the code to make it actually readable.  You can
see the navigation bar, and the inbox calls.  So your nagios
check_http call should in fact look like this:

./check_http -H exchange -u "/exchange/nagios/Inbox/?Cmd=contents" -a
"dom1\nagios":nagiospass1 -s "...."

Another note, you'll find the code for {name} : INBOX is split by HTML
code, so your check needs to account for it.  In my case, the check
would be:

   -s 'Jonathan Angliss</B></FONT></A></FONT......'

If you're just looking for the name resolution, just use that instead.

I just did a quick test to validate, and it looks like the following
page is expecting session data, so you might end up having to string
together a number of tests using cURL, or using webinject to login,
and access the page.

-- 
Jonathan Angliss
<jon at netdork.net>


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