[Xymon] nosslcert tag not doing what I thought it did

[Steve Holmes]

Thanks Henrik. That's the direction we were heading in anyway, but wanted to
make sure we weren't missing something.
Steve

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Henrik Størner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:

> I have a need to do a content test on an https url on a dev server
>> that has self signed certificates. The customer just wants Xymon to
>> get through to the first page and check the content without having to
>> mess with the certificate. I thought putting nosslcert on that host
>> would do the trick, but I couldn't see that it changed anything on
>> the resulting page.
>>
>> nosslcert turned the sslcert icon purple, but it didn't change the
>> behavior of the content test.
>>
>
> "nosslcert" means Xymon won't update an "sslcert" status. But since you
> have one, it will turn purple. Use the "drop" command to delete the status.
>
>
>  We want to be able to skip the ssl warning and the need to click to
>> proceed to the page. Apparently curl, wget and nagios all have
>> options to do this (although I haven't actually tested that on
>> nagios) so I'd be surprised if Xymon doesn't.
>>
>
> Xymon doesn't care about who issues your certificates. So that isn't
> your problem. What I think is the problem, is that Xymon will *only*
> fetch the page on the URI that you provide. It will not follow a
> redirect, not even a simple one like "http://www.foo.org/" redirecting
> to "http://www.foo.org/logon.html**" - if you want to check the logon
> page, you'll have to provide that URL explicitly in hosts.cfg.
>
>
> Regards,
> Henrik
>
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