Re: [hobbit] content tests (Yet another content check question)

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

Bleh. In addition to my other questions, I now have another.

I need to do a content check, on a proxy/vhost...is this possible?

In other words I have a host, web1 with IP 1.2.3.4, with apache running 
on port 8000. I need to do a vhost check against 1.2.3.4 with the 
hostname www.myhost.com, as well as doing a content check on the result.

So far I have been able to hit the vhost url via:
http://www.myhost.com:8000=1.2.3.4/some/test.php

And a content check via:
cont=http;http://www.myhost.com/some/test.php;SUCCESS   (no port 
specified for myhost.com because it goes through a load balancer on port 
80...only way it will work since cont has no option to pass the vhost)

Is there a way to combine the two? I tried something like:
cont=http;http://www.myhost.com:8000=1.2.3.4/some/test.php;SUCCESS

But it didn't work. I didn't really expect it to but figured I would try 
before I asked :)

-Charles

Charles Jones wrote:
> 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 :-)