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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Sorry for the top post – I haven’t quite figured out how to get
Outlook 2007 to behave properly when replying to HTML emails (switching to plain
text after I hit “Reply” doesn’t seem to quote the original properly). I’m
sure I’ll figure it out. Soon.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Anyway, we monitor plenty of clients for whom we track the
status of their hosted sites in addition to their internal networks. For the
hosted sites, we simply create a host object with the hosted site’s IP / DNS
name and assign checks normally (check_http variations primarily).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>Brock<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>
nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>August
Simonelli<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 23, 2008 6:23 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Nagios-users] how to monitor www.domain.com without host
object<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Hi Nagios-ers ...<br>
<br>
I need a little help with some logic here.<br>
<br>
In our network we have the usual set up:<br>
<br>
web servers -> VIP -> Cache -> VIP <br>
<br>
but then on top of the cache VIP we also use an external caching provider (no
prizes for guessing who that is, akamai) this means all requests for <a
href="http://www.mysite.com">www.mysite.com</a> go to this external source via
cname, which then gets assigned a round-robin'ed IP. so it changes a lot.<br>
<br>
now, i want to monitor all kinds of page response times, error codes and such
that i know check_http can do ... <br>
<br>
and i can do that easily as a service definition for my web server host
objects, or my vip host object or my squid host objects etc. <br>
<br>
but ... and here's where i get confused ...<br>
<br>
i have no host objects for the external caches, so what IP do i do my
http_check tests against to ensure that i'm hitting our outermost layer as a
user would? <br>
<br>
put another way ... how would you all go about monitoring a website that isn't
yours (say you wanted to monitor <a href="http://cnn.com">cnn.com</a> for all
these things, what ip would you run your checks against? can i create a host
with a domain name only? <br>
<br>
i'm sure this is easy and i'm just missing it ... so thanks for your gentle
help! :-)<br>
<br>
august<o:p></o:p></p>
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