Hi,
we monitore a server farm with several machines each providing multiple and different HTTP services, lets say some of them a forum, some others static pages and some more dynamic PHP pages. Sets of machines providing each service may overlap. Each service has a testing URL, which is unfortunately way to complicate to easily figure out the requested service from it, let say
http://10.0.0.123/index.php?serviceid=7fd6c689c5832e2e7d2dc1188e2548fb http://10.0.0.123/index.php?serviceid=733fe2d6c68cd9a245be03532a867483
for forum and dynamic content, respectively. I know, that's bad by design, but there is no easy way to change it.
All these URLs are configured with bb-hosts file. At the moment we tried two different approches: first we used all URLs at one line for this machine. This way the URL list in HTTP details is very long and unclear. A single failed test leads to a failure for all HTTP stuff which results in bad availability reports. Second we used some pseudo hostnames like forum-machine1 which leads again to some confusions because physical there is no such machine.
Last week I was very happy to find cont=COLUMN. As I think it is a bit misplaced in content checking area I probably use the wrong option for my things. And in addition I need several URLs to check the availability of a service, eg. for forum:
10.0.0.123 machine123 # cont=forum;http://10.0.0.123/index.php?serviceid=7fd6c689c5832e2e7d2dc1188e2548fb; cont=forum;http://10.0.0.123/index.php?serviceid=898e0df11f6400ce8c47a73b38f83e80;
Now I have a forum column in status pages, but AFAICS from details of this new column only the first URL is checked. If any of the later fails it does not result in an error for this service (but HTTP column shows a failed test).
I thought about having a lot of external scripts to test all URLs and report them to hobbit server, but this would be a hell to maintain. In addition this lacks the performance analysis hobbit does with HTTP tests. So, is there a way to generate and "stack" user defined tests in the same way as with HTTP tests?
Thanks in advance and kind regards,
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