httping through proxy

[naim abu darwish]

Hello
Thnx for the quick reply Mark, httping actaully has a -N switch ::
httping::  -N x            Nagios mode 2: return 0 when all fine, 'x'
i could add to that a time limit, say -t 2, standing for time limit is
2 seconds, and i sound the alarm when the value goes above that.
but thats not what i  really want, i want the actuall httping value, i
want to make a graph out   of it, with nagiosgrapher or pnp. This is
very important, we must know when perfomance is better, when we must
upgrade, etc etc..

oh, and running without the spaces before and after the : did not
help, i got this message:
(Return code of 127 is out of bounds - plugin may be missing)
Any ideas?

Greets
-Naim

On 9/26/06, Marc Powell <marc at ena.com> wrote:
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> > bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of naim abu darwish
> > Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 3:39 PM
> > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: [Nagios-users] httping through proxy
> >
> > hello.
> > I'm trying to monitor browsing performance through proxies. httping (
> > http://www.vanheusden.com/httping/ )is  like ping but for
> > http-requests.
> > check command example is  something like ::
> >
> > httping -h www.google.com -x 192.168.20.24:8080 -c 1 -t 2
> >
> > where the variables are ::
> > 1) 192.168.20.24 is the ip address of the proxy, corresponding to
> > $$HOSTADDRESS$$
> > 2) 8080  is the port number that the squid proxy is running on, this
> > could be corresponding to $ARG1$
> >
> > Could anyone please tell me how to put this in a way nagios
> > understands. Its something close to what i did below, but i cant quiet
> >  figure it out yet.
> > the mistake is somewhere with the colon ( : ), i think.
> >
> > ###  from the file   /etc/nagios/checkcommands.cfg
> >
> >
> > define command{
> >         command_name    check_httping
> >         command_line       /usr/bin/httping -x $HOSTADDRESS$ : $ARG1$
> > -c 1 -h  www.google.com
> >         }
>
> The spaces around the : are likely to be your current problem. You were
> probably trying for something like --
>
> command_line /usr/bin/httping -x $HOSTADDRESS$:$ARG1$ -c 1 -h
> www.google.com
>
> That would at least get httping running _BUT_ unless httping exits with
> the standard nagios exit codes to denote state and follows the nagios
> output guidelines (in the Developer Docs at http://nagiosplug.sf.net),
> you'll need to create a wrapper script for it so that it does. This is
> almost certainly going to be necessary. Essentially you'll need to look
> at the output of httping and determine if it's OK, WARNING, CRITICAL or
> UNKNOWN and tell nagios appropriately. At the minimum you'll need to
> follow the 'Print only one line of output' and 'Plugin Return Codes'
> section of that documentation.
>
> --
> Marc
>
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