[Xymon] !http, and other http-related questions

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Read the docs and it's not clear to me -- is there a way to specify that http should be down? Similarly, is there some kind of way to say that https should be available on one port, but another port should not be?

You cannot do something like

10.0.0.1 hostA # !http

which would have been the obvious way of doing it, because "http" expects a URL.

Instead, add a new test to the protocols.cfg file. E.g.

[web]
   port 80
   send "GET / HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n"
   expect "200"

then you can put

10.0.0.1 hostA # !web

in your hosts.cfg file.

Regards, Henrik