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http test don't care about the authentication

list Kris Springer
Wed, 2 May 2018 12:29:35 -0700
Message-Id: <user-5eb55d706112@xymon.invalid>

Anyone know why I can run a curl test from the Xymon server command line and get a '200 OK' status, but when I add the same httpstatus test into the hosts.cfg it returns a '404'?


Thank you.

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Kris Springer



On 05/02/2018 12:05 PM, John Thurston wrote:
Change to the httpstatus test.

httpstatus[=COLUMN];URL;okstatusexpr;notokstatusexpr

"This is used to explicitly test for certain HTTP statuscodes returned when the URL is requested. The okstatusexpr and nokokstatusexpr expressions are Perl-compatible regular expressions, e.g. "2..|302" will match all OK codes and the redirect (302) status code. If the URL cannot be retrieved, the status is "999"."

List '401' as an accepted return code.
If you want to make sure it won't return any data without authentication, list all others as unacceptable.

Do things because you should, not just because you can.

John Thurston    XXX-XXX-XXXX
user-ce4d79d99bab@xymon.invalid
Department of Administration
State of Alaska

On 5/2/2018 10:57 AM, Root, Paul T wrote:
All they care is that the web page is up, they are not looking to login.

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