check_http question

[Kevin Keane]

You could write your own plugin - a simple bash script - that calls the 
original check_http, tests the result, and then outputs whatever you 
need. Should be about five or six lines of code. Don't forget to return 
the same exit code as what you got from check_http.

# call the regular plugin here
output=$(...../check_http .....)
result=$?
# output whatever you need. You can of course also make it conditional with
# if [ $result -eq 0 ] or similar. Get as fancy as you want, just keep 
the output to a single line.
echo $url $output
exit $?

Put it into your plugin directory, make it executable, and use that 
instead of the original call to check_http.

Don't you love how customizable Nagios is?

Andrew Davis wrote:
> I've enabled check_http for quite a few hosts, including testing for 
> custom ports, URL's, and sites needing authentication. So far, so 
> good. However, one issue in the Nagios interface is bothering me. If I 
> drill in on a host, then the HTTP link for the test, it only shows OK. 
> It DOES NOT show the full URL that was tested. For example, for one of 
> my hosts, I had to test for a non-standard port, SSL, a directory 
> structure, and authentication (-I $HOSTNAME -p 8099 -u 
> /dir/dir/dir/file.php -a user:password. All worked in the sense that 
> the test returned an OK status, but I have no visual way of seeing the 
> tested URL within Nagios. In contrast, doing a similar test in BB 
> (which I'm migrating away from), shows the full URL that was tested. 
> Am I simply missing something here? Is there a way of seeing the full 
> URL/string that was tested with the check_http command?

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