[Xymon] HTTP response test?

[Jeremy Laidman]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 3:20 AM, Matthew Moldvan <mmoldvan at csc.com> wrote:

> I would think you could easily do this by using "time wget <yoururl>" and
> setting it up as a cron job to report the time taken back to your Xymon
> server ... setting up the graph would be a little more difficult, but is
> possible using NCV or other options through your Xymon server.


Or:

  curl -o /dev/null -w "%{time_total} - %{time_starttransfer}\n" $URL
2>/dev/null | tail -1

and evaluate the result.  This eliminates all other variables such as
retries, redirects DNS lookup times, and so on.

J
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