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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I've written a Java application that our operations team
wants to monitor via Nagios ( version 1.2 of Nagios ).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Because my app is non-http, I used
thecom.sun.net.httpserver.HttpServer class ( a lightweight http server ) to
provide the information that ops wants.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>when ops uses wget to call the appropriate url , it returns
immediately, with the expected output.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>when ops uses check_http, it hangs until it gets a
SocketTimeout.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I have seen a bug report re HttpServer that suggests that it
doesn't immediately close the connection when it is told to ( as I am telling
it to ), so that may be the problem, but wonder if there might be something
about Nagios that is causing this. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=2 color="#00a4e3" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#00A4E3'>George McKinney</span></font></b></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
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