[Xymon] Website monitoring?

[Ralph Mitchell]

You could probably replace the ping test with https.  For example:

     54.197.192.167  fox.okta.com          # noconn  https://fox.okta.com

That'll give you an http column that tells you the wen server is reachable,
and as an added bonus you'll get the sslcert column with details about the
SSL certificate.

Ralph Mitchell



On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 9:46 PM, Josh Luthman <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com>
wrote:

> Pretty sure it is noconn as well.
>
> I mean use the redirected URL with the extra directory and / instead of
> the short one you have
>
> Josh Luthman
> Office: 937-552-2340
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> On Jul 27, 2016 9:39 PM, "Ford, Alan" <Alan.FORD at stanwell.com> wrote:
>
>> Try using the noconn option,
>>
>> Plus you need to remove the conn status from your page…
>>
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>> xymon xymonserver  “drop site.name.com
>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__site.name.com&d=DQMFaQ&c=uw6TLu4hwhHdiGJOgwcWD4AjKQx6zvFcGEsbfiY9-EI&r=PkRJQBD4v9BG9EjQj5Byvg&m=F5haXvxY0gUNcSgUYuxKSX8su9i_OZLCur3IYdEc3zY&s=qPKsh0gc466kQNMGg9FCmivC5YfNP1yWJlb0-aNe7xA&e=>
>>                conn”
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>>
>> *Alan Ford*
>>
>> *Senior Database Administrator*
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>> *Com Serv - Information Communications and Technology*
>>
>> *Stanwell Corporation Limited*
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>> Tel (07) 3335 7243 | Mob 0407 610 141
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>> *From:* Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] *On Behalf Of *Edmond
>> Ruben
>> *Sent:* Thursday, 28 July 2016 11:28 AM
>> *To:* Josh Luthman
>> *Cc:* xymon at xymon.com
>> *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] Website monitoring?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks for the quick response Josh,
>>
>>
>>
>> I guess I don’t quite understand what you mean by “correct the HTTP URL”
>> and is there a way to disable the ping test for one site only?  I was
>> playing with the noping parm but it didn’t seem to change anything.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com
>> <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com>]
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 27, 2016 5:28 PM
>> *To:* Edmond Ruben <Ed.Ruben at fox.com>
>> *Cc:* xymon at xymon.com
>> *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] Website monitoring?
>>
>>
>>
>> You can correct the HTTP URL and disable the ping test?
>>
>> Josh Luthman
>> Office: 937-552-2340
>> Direct: 937-552-2343
>> 1100 Wayne St
>> Suite 1337
>> Troy, OH 45373
>>
>>
>>
>> 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://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__site.name.com&d=DQMFaQ&c=uw6TLu4hwhHdiGJOgwcWD4AjKQx6zvFcGEsbfiY9-EI&r=PkRJQBD4v9BG9EjQj5Byvg&m=F5haXvxY0gUNcSgUYuxKSX8su9i_OZLCur3IYdEc3zY&s=qPKsh0gc466kQNMGg9FCmivC5YfNP1yWJlb0-aNe7xA&e=>
>> # https:// site.name.com
>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__site.name.com&d=DQMFaQ&c=uw6TLu4hwhHdiGJOgwcWD4AjKQx6zvFcGEsbfiY9-EI&r=PkRJQBD4v9BG9EjQj5Byvg&m=F5haXvxY0gUNcSgUYuxKSX8su9i_OZLCur3IYdEc3zY&s=qPKsh0gc466kQNMGg9FCmivC5YfNP1yWJlb0-aNe7xA&e=>
>> 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 <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__ASP.NET&d=DQMFaQ&c=uw6TLu4hwhHdiGJOgwcWD4AjKQx6zvFcGEsbfiY9-EI&r=PkRJQBD4v9BG9EjQj5Byvg&m=F5haXvxY0gUNcSgUYuxKSX8su9i_OZLCur3IYdEc3zY&s=vY8or03x_SIofvt6D3jiyCUoOFV_9rMjrM_pcX-IJqA&e=>
>>
>> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2016 00:10:15 GMT
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>> 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 <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__fox.okta.com&d=DQMFaQ&c=uw6TLu4hwhHdiGJOgwcWD4AjKQx6zvFcGEsbfiY9-EI&r=PkRJQBD4v9BG9EjQj5Byvg&m=F5haXvxY0gUNcSgUYuxKSX8su9i_OZLCur3IYdEc3zY&s=QtP4spP0J_ajbRoAbI2jwN5WpoeCCqqEAYuBPGMlna4&e=> is not OK : Host does not respond to ping
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> System unreachable for 132 poll periods (8135 seconds)
>>
>>
>>
>> [image: red]54.197.192.167
>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__54.197.192.167&d=DQQFaQ&c=uw6TLu4hwhHdiGJOgwcWD4AjKQx6zvFcGEsbfiY9-EI&r=PkRJQBD4v9BG9EjQj5Byvg&m=F5haXvxY0gUNcSgUYuxKSX8su9i_OZLCur3IYdEc3zY&s=dcW8zJge1h4lkeD1KzzadFlEOgsG6U3JpEHld8fGaZQ&e=>
>> 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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