I have some systems running Xymon 4.2.3, I'm guessing the 'cont' attribute, along with hosts.cfg are not available in that version?

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Henrik Størner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:

On 19-08-2011 21:31, J. Bobby Lopez wrote:

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Looking for a way to write tests that check a URL, and return fail/pass depending on the content.

I could easily use curl to do this, but I'm looking for information on how to integrate the curl command line into xymon as a test.

Re-inventing the wheel, eh ?

Try reading up on the "cont" style test (see the hosts.cfg(5) man-page).

Regards, Henrik

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It's not too hard to script url tests. Below is one I wrote to check an RSA key server appliance. You can have xymon kick it off for you by adding something like this to server/etc/hobbitlaunch.cfg:

[keysrv] ENVFILE /home/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg NEEDS xymond CMD /home/xymon/server/ext/rkmsrv.sh LOGFILE $XYMONSERVERLOGS/rkmsrv.log INTERVAL 5m

Obviously you can do substantially more complicated things than would be possible in the regular "cont" check.

Ralph Mitchell

#!/bin/sh

set -x

TESTHOST=rkm.example.com TESTMSG='Get Key Successful' OUTFILE=$BBTMP/rkm.html

rm -f $OUTFILE TIME=curl -s -S -L -m 30 -w '%{time_total}' \ --cacert $BBHOME/trusted_cas.pem \ -o $OUTFILE \ "https:// $TESTHOST/rkmawa/healthCheck.do?keyclass=xymon&rootca=/root/CA/demoCA/trusted_cas. pem&client=/root/CA/demoCA/certs/xymon.p12"

STATUS=grep -c 'Get Key Successful' $BBTMP/rkm.html if [ "$STATUS" -eq "1" ]; then COLOR=green MESSAGE="Found <b>$TESTMSG</b>. Key server looks OK" else COLOR=red MESSAGE="Failed to find <b>$TESTMSG</b>. Key server may be in trouble" fi

MESSAGE="$MESSAGE

<pre> cat $BBTMP/rkm.html </pre> <p> Query: $TIME secs"

cat $BBTMP/rkm.html | sed -e 's/:/%3A/g'

MACHINE=echo $TESTHOST | sed -e 's/\./\,/g' $BB $BBDISP "status $MACHINE.keysrv $COLOR date

$MESSAGE" exit 0

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On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 5:17 PM, J. Bobby Lopez <jbl at jbldata.com> wrote:

sounds like I'll be upgrading soon. Thanks Henrik.

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 4:53 PM, J. Bobby Lopez <jbl at jbldata.com> wrote:

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I have some systems running Xymon 4.2.3, I'm guessing the 'cont' attribute, along with hosts.cfg are not available in that version?

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Henrik Størner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:

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On 19-08-2011 21:31, J. Bobby Lopez wrote:

...

Looking for a way to write tests that check a URL, and return fail/pass depending on the content.

I could easily use curl to do this, but I'm looking for information on how to integrate the curl command line into xymon as a test.

Re-inventing the wheel, eh ?

Try reading up on the "cont" style test (see the hosts.cfg(5) man-page).

Regards, Henrik

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