Help on check_http to check a certain URL.

[Andreas Ericsson]

Mukarram Syed wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to use Nagios plugin check_http to check a
> certain url.
> 
> This works fine:
> 
> # ./check_http www.yahoo.com
> HTTP ok: HTTP/1.1 200 OK -   0.213 second response
> time |time=  0.213
> 
> But I am trying to check for SiteScope URL on an
> internal server.  
> 
> # ./check_http
> http://10.0.2.100:8888/SiteScope/htdocs/Detailestore.html
> Invalid host name
> 'http://10.0.2.100:8888/SiteScope/htdocs/Detailestore.html'
> Unable to open TCP socket
> 
> and tried this...
> 
> # ./check_http
> 10.0.2.100:8888/SiteScope/htdocs/Detailestore.html
> Invalid host name
> '10.0.2.100:8888/SiteScope/htdocs/Detailestore.html'
> Unable to open TCP socket
> 
> I entered the hostname instead of the IP but same
> error.
> 
> How else should I check this URL?
> 

The option syntax of check_http is quite stupid, actually, since it 
doesn't even try to interpret full URI's.

check_http -H 10.0.2.100 -p 8888 -u /SiteScope/htdocs/Detailestore.html
should do roughly what you want. If not, try check_http --help

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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