I know this question may not be answered, but I am wondering if Xymon can monitor a WordPress website or 2 on DreamHost. I have a shared service account.
Matthew Gregory IT Manager Rural Youth & Adult Literacy Trust www.adultliteracy.ac.nz m: 022 644 9544 t: 0800 891 339 e: matthew at adultliteracy.ac.nz
Depends on the monitoring you have in mind.
All the usual would require running the client-side software on the system or VM being monitored. But you don't have to do that. A minimal connectivity test just requires that pings aren't blocked. A minimal web server test just requires getting through on http or https, with a successful fetch of a specified URL. I gather you can test a bit more about the sanity of https. And you could write a server-side test that performed a simple interaction via http or https and inspected the result more deeply than just the success of something (not an HTTP error code) being returned.
But anything to do with the health and sanity of the system or software or data, that can't be determined simply by accessing a public network service on the system or software, may once again require local client software. I have no idea what your hosting provider allows, although it doesn't look like you get a dedicated VM or the like, so I doubt you'd be allowed to run client-side monitoring software.
On Apr 28, 2019, at 05:50, Matthew Gregory <matthew at adultliteracy.ac.nz> wrote:
I know this question may not be answered, but I am wondering if Xymon can monitor a WordPress website or 2 on DreamHost. I have a shared service account.
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On 28/04/2019 14:08, Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
And you could write a server-side test that performed a simple interaction via http or https and inspected the result more deeply than just the success of something (not an HTTP error code) being returned.
The in-built http(s) test can also check the content of a specific page. For my use case, I check the page contains one of the css classes generated by the CMS, which I interpet as confirmation that not only is there something responding with HTTP 200, but the CMS is generating "sane" HTML. There are some other possibilities for the HTTP test too:
http://xymon.sourceforge.net/xymon/help/manpages/man5/hosts.cfg.5.html#lbAR
and so the relevant lines in my hosts.cfg for what I described above are e.g.
1.2.3.4 www.example.com # cont;https://www.example.com/;"my-css-class"
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