[Xymon] Monitoring HTTPS sites

Wed Dec 19 22:24:33 CET 2012

Really? Interesting.

I guess the cleanest way to go, then, would be to delete the directory, untar again, and then rebuild.

But, if your xymonnet command is revealing that ssl is enabled, then it may be the URL you've listed for testing.

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-----Original Message-----
From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Jewel Makda
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 4:16 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Monitoring HTTPS sites

When I run (sudo make clean) I get the following response: "make: *** No rule to make target 'clean'. Stop"

Jewel

On 12/19/2012 3:12 PM, Michael Burger wrote:
> I believe that you'll want to run "make clean" before rerunning "configure --server".
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On 
> Behalf Of Jewel Makda
> Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 4:09 PM
> To: xymon at xymon.com
> Subject: Re: [Xymon] Monitoring HTTPS sites
>
> I know I don't have any issues with blocked ports or anything.  I 
> think the SSL Libraries are still not configured.  When I run 
> (xymonnet
> --version) it still only shows my xymon version and no SSL libraries. 
> I installed openssl and libssl-dev
>
> I am not sure what path to include when I run the ./configure.server command.
>
> When do I run the make clean?
>
> Jewel
>
> On 12/19/2012 2:58 PM, Tim McCloskey wrote:
>> The first thing that came to mind when I saw your re-compile message is that you did not run 'make clean' prior to adding those new options.
>>
>> That said, it sounds like you did get ssl working... If ssl is working now (xymonnet --version shows the ssl libraries, etc) then I would have a look at any network or server firewalls/acls that prevent your xymon server from --> yourclient:tcp 443.
>>
>> If you don't know about any rules you can try to telnet to port 443 on the client from your xymon server.  There are also some certificate options that you may need to sort out once you can speak to the remote on 443.
>>
>>
>> Tim
>>
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [xymon-bounces at xymon.com] on behalf of 
>> Jewel Makda [jewel.brueggeman-makda at washburn.edu]
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 12:30 PM
>> To: Novosielski, Ryan
>> Cc: xymon at xymon.com
>> Subject: Re: [Xymon] Monitoring HTTPS sites
>>
>> Sorry.  What I mean is the status turns "red" and says "Server timeout."
>> I am not sure is there are any logs which will help me determine what 
>> I am missing.
>>
>> Jewel
>>
>> On 12/19/2012 2:28 PM, Novosielski, Ryan wrote:
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>>> "It fails" is not particularly specific.
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>>> On 12/19/2012 03:14 PM, Jewel Makda wrote:
>>>> I am runnng Ubuntu 11.04. I ran: sudo apt-get install libssl-dev I 
>>>> also reran configure using the following command: sudo 
>>>> ./configure.server --pcreinclude /usr/inlcude --pcrelib /usr/lib 
>>>> --sslinclude /usr/include --ssllib /usr/include
>>>>
>>>> It found the SSL libraries and asked if I want to enable SSL and I 
>>>> said yes.  I then ran Make and Make Install successfully. I then 
>>>> restarted Apache and Xymon but it still fails when I ask it to 
>>>> monitor a website using https.
>>>>
>>>> Jewel
>>>>
>>>> On 12/19/2012 1:33 PM, Tim McCloskey wrote:
>>>>> Jewel,
>>>>>
>>>>> What version of linux are you running?  The openssl-devel package 
>>>>> mentioned by Paul contains the files that are often missing when 
>>>>> people run into this sort of issue. The same thing happens when 
>>>>> people don't install the various 'devel' packages.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards, Tim ________________________________________ From:
>>>>> xymon-bounces at xymon.com [xymon-bounces at xymon.com] on behalf of 
>>>>> Root, Paul [Paul.Root at CenturyLink.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 
>>>>> 19, 2012 11:24 AM To: 'Jewel Makda' Cc: 'xymon at xymon.com'
>>>>> Subject: Re: [Xymon] Monitoring HTTPS sites
>>>>>
>>>>> Never leave the mailing list. Always reply all.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, that is different.  We're talking Linux here. You don't 
>>>>> specify, so we on the list are forced to guess.
>>>>>
>>>>> The openssl Linux package is just the executable. You need header 
>>>>> files, etc. to be able to compile things to use it.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message----- From: Jewel Makda 
>>>>> [mailto:jewel.brueggeman-makda at washburn.edu] Sent: Wednesday, 
>>>>> December 19, 2012 1:12 PM To: Root, Paul Subject: Re: [Xymon] 
>>>>> Monitoring HTTPS sites
>>>>>
>>>>> I do have OpenSSL version 1.0.1 installed. Is this different?
>>>>>
>>>>> Jewel
>>>>>
>>>>> On 12/19/2012 11:59 AM, Root, Paul wrote:
>>>>>> You need openssl-devel installed. You may need to recompile or 
>>>>>> reinstall Xymon after you add it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -----Original Message----- From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com 
>>>>>> [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Jewel Makda Sent:
>>>>>> Wednesday, December 19, 2012 11:24 AM To: xymon at xymon.com
>>>>>> Subject: [Xymon] Monitoring HTTPS sites
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am running version 4.3.5 When I run xymonnet --version I don't 
>>>>>> get any SSL libraries - just my version. I would like to be able 
>>>>>> to monitor some https sites but when I add the urls to the 
>>>>>> hosts.cfg file it fails.  I am running the web console for my 
>>>>>> Xymon server over https.  I am a newbie to linux so responses 
>>>>>> could be dummied down it would be greatly appreciated.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks in advance, -- Jewel
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