How to monitor complex websites?

[Richard Luys-Nagios User]

On Wed, 07 Jun 2006 13:38:21 +0200, Jesus Escoredo  
<jescoredo at germinus.com> wrote:

Hello Jesus,

Great tip! Very short and to the point, and when I look at the website of  
Webinject this looks just like the tool we need!

Thanks for your reply,

Richard


> Hi
>
> Use webinject
>
> http://www.webinject.org
>
> Jesus
>
>
>
> Richard Luys-Nagios User escribió:
>> Ladies and Gents,
>>  I have to monitor a website that is more complex than check_http can   
>> handle. Please advise.
>>  1.
>> The website we need to monitor contains a MDM application for a  
>> product  search. This is dynamic and browser-restricted content. The  
>> User-Agent  string of the browser is checked and if not correct you  
>> will be redirected  to a static error page, instead of the search form  
>> which is dynamically  generated (with some fields filled in with  
>> defaults).
>>  2.
>> This website runs on a cluster consisting of 5 nodes. Users connect to   
>> these nodes based on a round-robbing principle. When a node goes down  
>> it  is possible that they get a error-message telling them the server  
>> is  unavailable. When this happens the node-number of the node that is   
>> misbehaving can be found in a cookie. So what we like to have is the   
>> following:
>> - check the website
>> - if it gives an error read the nodenumber from the cookie
>> - Create a CRITICAL for the website with the node-number in the output
>>  We need to monitor this website, but check_http cannot (afaik) send a   
>> specified User-Agent string. Is anybody aware of another solution, or   
>> should I create one? If the latter: I was thinking about creating a  
>> check  based on wget, since wget is able to send User-Agent strings and  
>> can do  something with cookies as well. Can someone with enough  
>> knowledge on this  matter tell me if this is doable, or should I walk  
>> another path?
>>  Please advise, any suggestions are welcome!
>>  Regards,
>> Richard Luys
>



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