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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We’re setting up monitoring in xymon for our websites, most are working great but I have a few issues. Our hosts.cfg lines look like this:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx site.name.com # https:// site.name.com NK:http<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We’re trying not to touch the sites by adding bbd files. In one case we have what I believe is a non-standard redirection resulting in an orange ! in the http column and this info on the http page for that site:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<pre><img width="16" height="16" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.gif@01D1E82A.0A2173D0" alt="yellow"> https://fngvob.foxinc.com/ - Moved Permanently<o:p></o:p></pre>
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<pre>HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Location: https://fngvob.foxinc.com/VOB_PD/<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>X-Powered-By: ASP.NET<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2016 00:10:15 GMT<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Connection: close<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Content-Length: 156<o:p></o:p></pre>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Seconds: 0.349426000<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The second case is, there’s a firewall rule that prevents us from pinging an outside site as a result for that site we have a red face in the conn column and when I click it I see:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<pre>Service conn on fox.okta.com is not OK : Host does not respond to ping<o:p></o:p></pre>
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<pre>System unreachable for 132 poll periods (8135 seconds)<o:p></o:p></pre>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><img width="16" height="16" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image002.gif@01D1E82A.DE3C4FA0" alt="red"> 54.197.192.167 is unreachable<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We would like to continue monitoring these sites because the info that is available is extremely valuable but would like to make the alerts go away without touching the sites or the firewall. Does anybody have any suggestions on how this
might be done?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Ed Ruben<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Systems Engineer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Fox Networks Group<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#1F497D">(310) 369-8403 or 38403<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="mailto:Edmond.Ruben@fox.com"><span style="color:#0563C1">Edmond.Ruben@fox.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:#1F497D">10201 W. Pico Blvd. building 89 Los Angeles, CA 90035<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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