How do I check if a website is up?

[Josh Wells]

Ok so if the website is external to my network I need to create a host
definition? What would that look like for a URL? I've only made host
definitions for internal hosts using the IP address. Because the website
is a hosted solution I would rather define it by URL than IP address. Is
this possible?



-----Original Message-----
From: Assaf Flatto [mailto:assaf.flatto at ssp.uk.com] 
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 10:46 AM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] How do I check if a website is up?

Not nessaceily .

If you have that website in your network , you can just define the
check_http check to that host.
also you can add in one of the parameters the specific URL you wish to
query .

-u, --url=PATH
    URL to GET or POST (default: /)


Or you can define a check on the nagios server it self to query the web
site like this :

# 'check_website' command definition
define command{
        command_name    check_website
        command_line    $USER1$/check_http -H www.website.com 
}


If not , then you need to build a new host definition and service check
for that host .


On Monday 20 October 2008 15:18:53 Josh Wells wrote:
> Do I have to define a remote host such as www.website.com in order to 
> apply the check_http service against that host?



-- 

Assaf Flatto
SSP Ops Team
Linux System Administrator





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