Using nagios check_http forwebbasedauthentication

[Venugopal S]

Hi all,
If all I have to do is to check for the liveliness of a website, why can't I go with HTTPUnit instead of Nagios (or) any of its plugins.

Thanks
Venu



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From: Marouane HIMDI [mailto:marouane.himdi at kereval.com]
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 8:17 PM
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Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Using nagios check_http forwebbasedauthentication

I'll recommand the same tool webinject as Narendran. I have played with it.
Good to generate http/https request and calculate response time and verify
some words in reponse request.

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You may also try http://www.webinject.org/plugin.html

Regards,
Naren

-----Original Message-----
From: Marc Powell [mailto:marc at ena.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 8:46 PM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Using nagios check_http for
webbasedauthentication


On Jan 22, 2009, at 7:55 AM, Venugopal S wrote:

>
> Hi Marc,
>
> Thanks for the reply. I am even now vague about how to proceed.
>
> Let me tell you the need :
>
> I have to open http://ww12.1800flowers.com/signin.do and enter my
> email(svenugopaal at gmail.com) and password("podhum") in order to login.

Looking at the source of the page, the sign-in form has the following 
pertinent fields --

	<input type="text" name="email" maxlength="100" value=""
style="width:
120px" class="textfield">
	<input type="password" name="password" maxlength="64" value="" 
style="width:120px" class="textfield">
								
The field names that would be passed as the POST are 'email' and 
'password'. Now, I don't know what command{} definitions you have for 
check_http or how they're configured so I'll show you how to create a 
new one very specific to this test --

define command {
	command_name 		check_flowers_login
	command_line		$USER1$/check_http -I $HOSTADDRESS$ -H 
ww12.1800flowers.com -u /signin.do -P 
"email=svenugopaal at gmail.com&password=podhum"
}

Set that as the check_command for a service associated with the host 
and nagios will verify that the web server does not return an HTTP 
error after login. Note that if your server returns a standard 200 
response indicating OK even if there is a login error (most likely), 
you'll want to identify a word or string of text that should appear in 
the page after successful login, but not for a failure, and look for 
that with the -s parameter --

define command {
	command_name 		check_flowers_login
	command_line		$USER1$/check_http -I $HOSTADDRESS$ -H 
ww12.1800flowers.com -u /signin.do -P 
"email=svenugopaal at gmail.com&password=podhum" -s "you are logged in"
}

> Though this looks like a lot of hand holding, I have no other go.

My charge is 1 local specialty beer for all Hand Holding Help.

--
Marc


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