Re: [hobbit] content tests

[Charles Jones <jonescr (at) cisco.com>]

Also while I'm mucking about with content checks, I have another 
question.  I added two content checks:

1.2.3.4    web-8  # ssh pulldata TRENDS:*,disk:disk|disk1 
cont=http;http://prodsite.foo.com/monitor.php;SUCCESS 
cont=http;http://prodsite2.foo.com/amialiveornot.php;SUCCESS

When I check the http status, I see the first content check only. :


     Wed Aug 9 23:55:58 2006: Content OK

http://prodsite.foo.com/monitor.php - Testing URL <http://aqmt-prod.cisco.com/monitor.php> yields:
SUCCESS


However, when I go to the "info" column, it shows that both URLs are 
being checked:

Checked with ping:Yes
Content checks: http://prodsite.foo.com/monitor.php 
<http://aqmt-prod.cisco.com/monitor.php>  must return 'SUCCESS'
                            http://prodsite2.foo.com/amialiveornot.php 
<http://reports-prod.cisco.com/amialiveornot.php>  must return 'SUCCESS'

How do I get both content checks to display in the http status area?
If this is not possible, will alerts still be sent if either content 
check fails?

-Charles

Charles Jones wrote:
> FYI Just for fun I gave it a try (specifying the column name as 
> "http"), and it appears to work - rather I get the content check in 
> the http column, but the "normal" http status that shows the header 
> and whatnot isn't there, so I'm guessing that hobbit just displays the 
> last status type it received for that column.
>
> Since the content check will still turn red and trigger an alert if 
> http itself goes down, this may be all that I need. The only problem I 
> could foresee is maybe someone could click the http status in between 
> the times that the normal status is reported, and the content status 
> is reported, so they would get just the normal status...due to the 
> timing of that I doubt it would ever happen so I'm not too worried.
>
> I'm open to any other suggestions or comments.
>
> -Charles
>
> Charles Jones wrote:
> > Is it possible to have the results of the HTTP test as well as the 
> > CONT test both displayed in the http status area?
> > In other words, "cont=http;http://www.foo.com/blah/;SUCCESS";
> >
> > I'm not suggesting that the default be that way, I can think of many 
> > cases where it would be desirable to have a separate "http" and 
> > "content" columns. I'm just trying to have as few columns as possible 
> > :-)