And the supported syntax for adding proxy information to the URL is unfortunate, in that it is hard to read, hard to maintain, and exposes login secrets in multiple places.
-----Original Message----- From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Ribeiro, Glauber Sent: Friday, October 07, 2016 07:56 To: Galen Johnson <Galen.Johnson at sas.com>; Xymon Mailing List <xymon at xymon.com> Subject: Re: [Xymon] Global setting for http proxy
Yes, because among other things, we're living in a time when "getting an exception" is becoming exponentially harder.
-----Original Message----- From: Galen Johnson [mailto:Galen.Johnson at sas.com] Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2016 19:51 To: Ribeiro, Glauber <glauber.ribeiro at experian.com>; Xymon Mailing List <xymon at xymon.com> Subject: Re: [Xymon] Global setting for http proxy
This isn't the first time this has come up. I recently wrestled with this. Rather than have to manage several hundred entries to include the proxy info, I had to ask that my monitoring server be allowed an exemption. It would be REALLY helpful if xymon would either pick up an environment variable (like use the system http_proxy setting) or allow users to set a default proxy to use.
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From: Xymon <xymon-bounces at xymon.com> on behalf of Ribeiro, Glauber <glauber.ribeiro at experian.com> Sent: Thursday, October 6, 2016 4:16 PM To: Xymon Mailing List Subject: Re: [Xymon] Global setting for http proxy
Adding support for proxy configuration in environment variables in a future version, may be nice. Probably not a high priority.
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-----Original Message----- From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Japheth Cleaver Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2016 11:49 To: Xymon Mailing List <xymon at xymon.com> Subject: Re: [Xymon] Global setting for http proxy
On 10/4/2016 4:00 PM, John Thurston wrote:
On 10/4/2016 5:55 AM, Ribeiro, Glauber wrote:
Sorry if this is a silly question. Is there a way to set proxy parameters (URL, user, password) for xymon globally, instead of having to do it on each http URL?
I spent some time a couple of years ago digging into http proxy support in xymonnet. I am not aware of any way to do what you want.
I agree this would be a useful feature, defined at either the global or host/defaulthost level.
It's not something available as-is, but I think there may be a way to patch that in in the future.
Regards,
-jc
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