[Xymon] Global setting for http proxy

Ribeiro, Glauber glauber.ribeiro at experian.com
Fri Oct 7 15:03:09 CEST 2016


And the supported syntax for adding proxy information to the URL is unfortunate, in that it is hard to read, hard to maintain, and exposes login secrets in multiple places.

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From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Ribeiro, Glauber
Sent: Friday, October 07, 2016 07:56
To: Galen Johnson <Galen.Johnson at sas.com>; Xymon Mailing List <xymon at xymon.com>
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Global setting for http proxy

Yes, because among other things, we're living in a time when "getting an exception" is becoming exponentially harder. 

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From: Galen Johnson [mailto:Galen.Johnson at sas.com] 
Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2016 19:51
To: Ribeiro, Glauber <glauber.ribeiro at experian.com>; Xymon Mailing List <xymon at xymon.com>
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Global setting for http proxy

This isn't the first time this has come up.  I recently wrestled with this.  Rather than have to manage several hundred entries to include the proxy info, I had to ask that my monitoring server be allowed an exemption.  It would be REALLY helpful if xymon would either pick up an environment variable (like use the system http_proxy setting) or allow users to set a default proxy to use.

=G=

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From: Xymon <xymon-bounces at xymon.com> on behalf of Ribeiro, Glauber <glauber.ribeiro at experian.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 6, 2016 4:16 PM
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Subject: Re: [Xymon] Global setting for http proxy

Adding support for proxy configuration in environment variables in a future version, may be nice. Probably not a high priority.

g

-----Original Message-----
From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Japheth Cleaver
Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2016 11:49
To: Xymon Mailing List <xymon at xymon.com>
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Global setting for http proxy

On 10/4/2016 4:00 PM, John Thurston wrote:
> On 10/4/2016 5:55 AM, Ribeiro, Glauber wrote:
>>
>> Sorry if this is a silly question. Is there a way to set proxy
>> parameters (URL, user, password) for xymon globally, instead of
>> having to do it on each http URL?
>
> I spent some time a couple of years ago digging into http proxy
> support in xymonnet. I am not aware of any way to do what you want.
>
I agree this would be a useful feature, defined at either the global or
host/defaulthost level.

It's not something available as-is, but I think there may be a way to
patch that in in the future.


Regards,

-jc

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