Using double slashes ? - Not sure whether my previ ous mail was sent

[Danny Wigmans]

Hi,

I am trying to get the check_http plug-in to work, so I can check a proxy
server.

The command I try to use is: 

./check_http -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -u http://www.yahoo.com -e HTTP/1.1 200

Though the command works fine from the bash shell on RH 9 under the nagios
user account, it doesn't work through the scripts...
When executing from the shell I get a HTTP Ok response, from the scripts it
returns a HTTP CRITICAL.

I am using nagios-1.1 and nagios-plugins-1.3.1 (check_http (1.24.2.4) from
SourceForge...

My hunch is that the // in the URL are not taken literal but are being
interpreted by nagios. Anyone any ideas, or a possible workaround? I have
already tried using \ as escape char, using %47%47, creating a macro in
resources.cfg, double quoting the URL, and passing it from services to a
$ARG1$ macro in my check_command, and combinations of these. Nothing worked
so far..

Ideas anyone???

Thanks,

Danny



My files look as follows:

checkcommands.cfg:

define command{
        command_name    check_http_proxy
        command_line    $USER1$/check_http -I $HOSTADDRESS$ -u
http://www.yahoo.com -e HTTP/1.1 200
        }

services.cfg:

define service {
name                            generic-service-template
active_checks_enabled           1       
passive_checks_enabled          1       
parallelize_check               1      
obsess_over_service             1       
check_freshness                 0       
notifications_enabled           1       
event_handler_enabled           1       
flap_detection_enabled          1      
process_perf_data               1       
retain_status_information       1       
retain_nonstatus_information    1      
max_check_attempts              3
normal_check_interval           5
retry_check_interval            2
check_period                    24x7
notification_interval           240
notification_period             24x7
notification_options            w,c
register                        0
}

define service {
        name                    http-proxy-template
        service_description     HTTP Proxy
        check_command           check_http_proxy
        use                     generic-service-template
        register                0
        }

define service {
        hostgroup_name          proxy-srv
        contact_groups          admin-group
        use                     http-proxy-template
        }






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