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On 4/01/12 2:37 AM, Buchan Milne wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Tuesday, 3 January 2012 14:59:07 Information desk wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hi all,
I've been reading about xymonnet.conf, hosts.conf, etc. but so far
cannot get my xymon 4.2.3 to monitor URLs other than hosts on port 80.
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What are you currently trying, what have you tried that does not work?
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<pre wrap="">Can anyone point me in the right direction on how to monitor:
- Pages requiring http authentication
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Covered in hosts.cfg(5)
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<pre wrap="">- Monitoring host aliases (other than by putting another entry in the
hosts.conf duplicating an already monitored host)
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Covered in hosts.cfg(5) I believe.
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<pre wrap="">- Monitoring SSL services
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Covered in hosts.cfg(5) I believe.
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<pre wrap="">I can get hosts.conf to monitor port http servers by explicitly adding
an http column to the row of headers- is that all one can use?
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No. Did you read the 'HTTP Tests' section of the documentation for hosts.cfg?
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.xymon.com/xymon/help/manpages/man5/hosts.cfg.5.html#lbAR">http://www.xymon.com/xymon/help/manpages/man5/hosts.cfg.5.html#lbAR</a>
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<pre wrap="">Maybe I
need to set up xymonnet? Is there any info around on doing this (I can
really only find the man page). Perhaps it needs a guide on how to
begin implementing it if I can't find it (?)
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The man page isn't very difficult to read, have you tried?
If you don't come right, please provide a bit more detail on what you have
tried, and what the result (error message, invalid testing etc.) is.
Regards,
Buchan
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Woot! Thanks Buchan for clearing this up! So far I've been reading
the sonfig guide and old perhaps versions of the documentation and
web snippets that were faaaaaar less descriptive. Last time I read
the hosts.cfg man page I got caught up on the
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CRITICAL SYSTEMS OVERVIEW section and simply didn't make it down to
the http tests (doh!)- which makes perfect sense. <br>
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Also discovered the example files on the main site which are a
really great help. Thanks again- this is just what I needed.<br>
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