httping through proxy

[naim abu darwish]

i think i found an alternative::

# 'check_http' command definition
define command{
        command_name    check_http
        command_line    $USER1$/check_http -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -p $ARG1$
-u http://www.google.com
        }

Im not sure its the same thing, tcpdump should show.
On 9/26/06, naim abu darwish <naim.abu.darwish at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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