[Xymon] Splitting up HTTP into separate individual tests - best practice?

[Ralph Mitchell]

I had a fair amount of success running external scripts from cron to do web
server checkouts. I used curl to grab a page, then grep to pick out the
interesting bits and decide on a color to report. Using a script allows you
to drill down through several levels of web page. I used bash and all the
usual command line tools, but you could use perl, tcl or anything else
you're familiar with.

Doing it with scripts gives you a lot of flexibility.

Ralph Mitchell
On Nov 8, 2012 10:23 PM, "Betsy Schwartz" <betsy.schwartz at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a high-visibility request to change all of our server http
> tests so that they appear as separate tests per URL,  with the ability
> to alert separately, sign out separately, etc.
> As most of our web servers are application servers in one form or
> another, the various URL's test very different functionality.
>
> I can sort of do this with the "cont=" flag but that has two problems:
>
>   -have to specify a return regexp for each tested URL instead of
> using the default
>   -test STILL appears under the server's http check
>
> It's becoming a serious issue that we have http tests that show a
> mixture of red and green tests.
> And to make it worse, on some servers  sometimes http  just turns
> *yellow* when only one URL out of three or four is down,  even though
> all four are critical..
>
> What are other people doing? Am I missing an easier way to do this?
>
> thanks Betsy
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