[xymon] Monitoring a webpage that requires auth

[Ralph Mitchell]

If it's "remembering" the authentication via cookies, something like this
would probably work:

   #!/bin/bash
   CURLOPTS="-b cookies -c cookies -s -S -L -m 30"
   curl $CURLOPTS -o authpage.html http://cisco-thing.domain.com
   curl $CURLOPTS -o statuspage.html
http://cisco-thing.domain.com/statuspage.html

then you extract whatever you need from the status page to test it for
"correctness" and send the result to Xymon:

   $BB $BBDISP "status cisco-thing,domain,com.status $COLOR `date`
   $MESSAGE"

The COLOR & MESSAGE variables would be constructed during the check for
"correctness".

Ralph Mitchell


On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Shane Presley <shane.presley at gmail.com>wrote:

> I'm afraid not.  If I start my session with the URL of the status
> page, it redirects me to the front auth page.  But once I authenticate
> it takes me to the generic start page.  Not my status page.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Ryan Novosielski <novosirj at umdnj.edu>
> wrote:
> > Doesn't browsing to the second page directly prompt you to auth too?
> >
> > -- Sent from my Palm Pre
> > ________________________________
> > On Feb 4, 2011 9:23, Shane Presley <shane.presley at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I have a Cisco web application that shows me the status of my
> > environment. However, in order to access the status page, I first
> > need to authenticate.
> >
> > I realize xymon has auth capabilities built into the http content
> > test. But that doesn't seem to work in my environment. Once I log
> > into the front page, I need to navigate to a second page..which is
> > where my status is displayed.
> >
> > Is there any way to grab http content tests from that second page?
> >
> > Thanks
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