[Xymon] How to monitor web services

[Information desk]

Hi all,

I've been reading about xymonnet.conf, hosts.conf, etc. but so far 
cannot get my xymon 4.2.3 to monitor URLs other than hosts on port 80.

Can anyone point me in the right direction on how to monitor:

- Pages requiring http authentication
- Monitoring host aliases (other than by putting another entry in the 
hosts.conf duplicating an already monitored host)
- Monitoring SSL services

I can get hosts.conf to monitor port http servers by explicitly adding 
an http column to the row of headers- is that all one can use?  Maybe I 
need to set up xymonnet? Is there any info around on doing this (I can 
really only find the man page).  Perhaps it needs a guide on how to 
begin implementing it if I can't find it (?)

Many thanks in advance!


Pluto