check_http question?

[Karl DeBisschop]

On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 21:24:50 -0700
Jonathan Nichols <jnichols at pbp.net> wrote:

> Greetings!
> 
> Can the check_http plugin also measure page load times, or does it
> just check to see if the http port is open?
> 
> I have a project that I've been tasked with - need to measure page
> load times & also graph them.
> 
> Can I do this with Nagios? If yes, how could I graph this? I know, 
> "rrdtool" or something.. but has anyone done this? :)
> 
> Thanks for any information! :D

By default, check_http downloads the entire web page. But id does not
follow any links - css, iframes, etc - that are normally part of a page.

You need tp use curl or perl LWP if you need to follow links like that.

-- 
Karl


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