On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Asif Iqbal <vadud3 at gmail.com> wrote:

On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell at gmail.com> wrote:

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I don't think that's possible with Xymon right now, but it can be done if you're up to a little scripting. I had an aging, single 733MHz cpu DL380 running web page checkouts on 400+ hosts, generating around 2700 reports, running at various intervals from 30 seconds to 24 hours.

The trick is to use cron for scheduling...

Something like this, for instance:

============= cut here ============ #!/bin/sh

TESTHOST=www.google.com TESTURL=http://$TESTHOST/

TIMEOUT=30

Grab *just* the headers, simulating Xymon's builtin http check

MESSAGE=curl -m $TIMEOUT \ -w 'Seconds: %{time_total}\n' \ -s -S -L -I $TESTURL | $GREP -v Set-Cookie if [ "$?" -eq "0" ]; then COLOR=green else COLOR=red fi

convert dots to commas in the hostname

MACHINE=`echo $TESTHOST | $SED -e 's/\./\,/g'

$BB $BBDISP "status $MACHINE.home $COLOR date

$MESSAGE" ============= cut here ============

This curl command looks all I need as an extension script instead of http:// to get my host specific http timeout

I could just use this instead of urlplus.pl, correct?

Yes, you could do exactly that. You'll probably want to make the above script into a function or child script and feed it the hostname, url & max time values pulled from a file.

Ralph Mitchell