[Xymon] How to monitor web services

Hi all,

I've been reading about xymonnet.conf, hosts.conf, etc. but so far cannot get my xymon 4.2.3 to monitor URLs other than hosts on port 80.

Can anyone point me in the right direction on how to monitor:

• Pages requiring http authentication
• Monitoring host aliases (other than by putting another entry in the hosts.conf duplicating an already monitored host)
• Monitoring SSL services

I can get hosts.conf to monitor port http servers by explicitly adding an http column to the row of headers- is that all one can use? Maybe I need to set up xymonnet? Is there any info around on doing this (I can really only find the man page). Perhaps it needs a guide on how to begin implementing it if I can't find it (?)

Many thanks in advance!

Pluto