check if SAP login is possible

[Werner Flamme]

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Mark,

thanks, I hope this will work out, since the web page shown is not where
you enter login data. You have a "login" button, and when you click on
it, a JavaScript window pops up where you may enter your logon data.

I played around with Ton's module, but never with WWW::Mechanize (or
LWP), so I don't know how far this may help. I'll look into it soon.

But this is only one method to log in, the other one is via the generic
SAP GUI or the SAP PLATIN GUI, which is a Java tool. And I have no idea
how to wrestle with those. Here it would be sufficient to get the
standard login screen, the login itself is not needed, since during the
hangup even the login screen did not appear. I can't say if this is the
same for the web page. Until I'm proven wrong, I'd say this is the case
and therefore it is sufficient to test the availability of the page ;-).
It is not sufficient to check the validity of the https certificate -
this check was "OK" all the time.

Maybe of of the 6000+ items I can check via check_sap_cons can help, but
how do I know? :-\

Regards,
Werner


Frost, Mark {PBC} [23.02.2011 16:45]:
> Werner,
> 
> I can't say that I'm an expert at any of these methods, but there are a
> few possibilities you might explore.
> 
> - WebInject.  It allows you to write these kind of request/response
> scripts that walk through interaction with a website, including a
> login.  There's even some stuff about using it directly with Nagios
> on their site.
> 
> - Perl and the WWW::Mechanize module.  This allows you to do something
> similar to WebInject by writing your own Perl script that interacts with
> a website including "pressing" buttons, etc.  I would also recommend
> Ton Voon's spiffy Nagios::Plugin module to handle the Nagios plugin
> duties.
> 
> In either case, you would probably want to create some dummy/test
> user to attempt the login with.
> 
> Mark
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Werner Flamme [mailto:werner.flamme at ufz.de] 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 8:15 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] check if SAP login is possible
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> last week I had a new problem - all Nagios checks of the SAP systems
> succeeded, but no one was able to login or to work inside SAP. The users
> got a timeout message, but remained logged in. The usual checks via
> check_sap_cons still delivered their standard output.
> 
> How can I check if a SAP login is possible or not? As a first step, I
> check the https:// login screen (with check_http), but how can I check
> that a user may log in after seeing that screen?
> 
> BTW, the reason was a shared filesystem full to the brim...
> 
> Regards,
> Werner

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