Real network service tests
The Man page for hobbit states that :
When checking websites, it is possible to not only check that the webserver is responding, but also that the response looks correct by matching the response against a pre-defined pattern or a checksum
Can anybody tell me how to configure this? I want to run a http test on a webserver. If the webserver does not return the response I am expecting then alert me that something has changed on the server.
regards
Brian
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 15:58, Brian Daly <brian.daly at criticalpath.net> wrote:
The Man page for hobbit states that :
When checking websites, it is possible to not only check that the webserver is responding, but also that the response looks correct by matching the response against a pre-defined pattern or a checksum
Can anybody tell me how to configure this? I want to run a http test on a webserver. If the webserver does not return the response I am expecting then alert me that something has changed on the server.
Under "HTTP tests" in the version of the man page I have it lists the "cont=" test for doing content checks.
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I'm curious if anyone has used a SheevaPlug to run Xymon for small networks. We like running Xymon centralized in our office, with remote servers sending in data (BBWin), but there are some limitations with that when it is not feasible to let Xymon talk to servers through a remote firewall (conn, dns, etc. can't be used for instance).
We support many disparate networks, and perhaps a small xymon install inside the firewall acting as a proxy to our centralized install would work well. The idea would be to have minimal configuration done at each site and keep the alerting logic etc. centralized.
The SheevaPlug would be a cheap way to add monitoring to a network that otherwise couldn't dedicate a (physical or virtual) server.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SheevaPlug
Greg
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