[Xymon] Monitoring HTTPS sites

[Novosielski, Ryan]

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Yeah, take a quick through the logs on your machine that runs the
network tests. It's likely that you'll find something in one of them
(I'd think the network log, but I've been suprised before).

On 12/19/2012 03:30 PM, Jewel Makda wrote:
> Sorry.  What I mean is the status turns "red" and says "Server
> timeout." I am not sure is there are any logs which will help me
> determine what I am missing.
> 
> Jewel
> 
> On 12/19/2012 2:28 PM, Novosielski, Ryan wrote: "It fails" is not
> particularly specific.
> 
> On 12/19/2012 03:14 PM, Jewel Makda wrote:
>>>> I am runnng Ubuntu 11.04. I ran: sudo apt-get install
>>>> libssl-dev I also reran configure using the following
>>>> command: sudo ./configure.server --pcreinclude /usr/inlcude
>>>> --pcrelib /usr/lib --sslinclude /usr/include --ssllib
>>>> /usr/include
>>>> 
>>>> It found the SSL libraries and asked if I want to enable SSL
>>>> and I said yes.  I then ran Make and Make Install
>>>> successfully. I then restarted Apache and Xymon but it still
>>>> fails when I ask it to monitor a website using https.
>>>> 
>>>> Jewel
>>>> 
>>>> On 12/19/2012 1:33 PM, Tim McCloskey wrote:
>>>>> Jewel,
>>>>> 
>>>>> What version of linux are you running?  The openssl-devel
>>>>> package mentioned by Paul contains the files that are often
>>>>> missing when people run into this sort of issue. The same
>>>>> thing happens when people don't install the various 'devel'
>>>>> packages.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Regards, Tim ________________________________________
>>>>> From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [xymon-bounces at xymon.com] on
>>>>> behalf of Root, Paul [Paul.Root at CenturyLink.com] Sent:
>>>>> Wednesday, December 19, 2012 11:24 AM To: 'Jewel Makda' Cc:
>>>>> 'xymon at xymon.com' Subject: Re: [Xymon] Monitoring HTTPS
>>>>> sites
>>>>> 
>>>>> Never leave the mailing list. Always reply all.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Yes, that is different.  We're talking Linux here. You
>>>>> don't specify, so we on the list are forced to guess.
>>>>> 
>>>>> The openssl Linux package is just the executable. You need
>>>>> header files, etc. to be able to compile things to use it.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> -----Original Message----- From: Jewel Makda 
>>>>> [mailto:jewel.brueggeman-makda at washburn.edu] Sent:
>>>>> Wednesday, December 19, 2012 1:12 PM To: Root, Paul
>>>>> Subject: Re: [Xymon] Monitoring HTTPS sites
>>>>> 
>>>>> I do have OpenSSL version 1.0.1 installed. Is this
>>>>> different?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Jewel
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 12/19/2012 11:59 AM, Root, Paul wrote:
>>>>>> You need openssl-devel installed. You may need to
>>>>>> recompile or reinstall Xymon after you add it.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> -----Original Message----- From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com 
>>>>>> [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Jewel Makda
>>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 11:24 AM To:
>>>>>> xymon at xymon.com Subject: [Xymon] Monitoring HTTPS sites
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I am running version 4.3.5 When I run xymonnet --version
>>>>>> I don't get any SSL libraries - just my version. I would
>>>>>> like to be able to monitor some https sites but when I
>>>>>> add the urls to the hosts.cfg file it fails.  I am
>>>>>> running the web console for my Xymon server over https.
>>>>>> I am a newbie to linux so responses could be dummied down
>>>>>> it would be greatly appreciated.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks in advance, -- Jewel 
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