How to monitor web services

On 4/01/12 2:37 AM, Buchan Milne wrote:

On Tuesday, 3 January 2012 14:59:07 Information desk wrote:

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.

What are you currently trying, what have you tried that does not work?

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

- Pages requiring http authentication

Covered in hosts.cfg(5)

- Monitoring host aliases (other than by putting another entry in the
hosts.conf duplicating an already monitored host)

Covered in hosts.cfg(5) I believe.

- Monitoring SSL services

Covered in hosts.cfg(5) I believe.

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?

No. Did you read the 'HTTP Tests' section of the documentation for hosts.cfg?

http://www.xymon.com/xymon/help/manpages/man5/hosts.cfg.5.html#lbAR

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 (?)

The man page isn't very difficult to read, have you tried?

If you don't come right, please provide a bit more detail on what you have
tried, and what the result (error message, invalid testing etc.) is.

Regards,
Buchan

Woot! Thanks Buchan for clearing this up!  So far I've been reading the 
sonfig guide and old perhaps versions of the documentation and web 
snippets that were faaaaaar less descriptive. Last time I read the 
hosts.cfg man page I got caught up on the CRITICAL SYSTEMS OVERVIEW 
section and simply didn't make it down to the http tests (doh!)- which 
makes perfect sense.

Also discovered the example files on the main site which are a really 
great help. Thanks again- this is just what I needed.