[Xymon] Website monitoring?

[Josh Luthman]

You can correct the HTTP URL and disable the ping test?

Josh Luthman
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On Jul 27, 2016 8:22 PM, "Edmond Ruben" <Ed.Ruben at fox.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
>
> 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:
>
> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx                site.name.com                  # https://
> site.name.com             NK:http
>
> 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:
>
> [image: yellow] https://fngvob.foxinc.com/ - Moved Permanently
>
>
>
> HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
>
> Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
>
> Location: https://fngvob.foxinc.com/VOB_PD/
>
> Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5
>
> X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
>
> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2016 00:10:15 GMT
>
> Connection: close
>
> Content-Length: 156
>
>
>
> Seconds: 0.349426000
>
> 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:
>
> Service conn on fox.okta.com is not OK : Host does not respond to ping
>
>
>
>
>
> System unreachable for 132 poll periods (8135 seconds)
>
>
>
> [image: red] 54.197.192.167 is unreachable
>
>
>
> 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?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ed Ruben
>
> Systems Engineer
>
> Fox Networks Group
>
> (310) 369-8403 or 38403
>
> Edmond.Ruben at fox.com
>
> 10201 W. Pico Blvd. building 89 Los Angeles, CA 90035
>
>
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