I have a need to do a content test on an https url on a dev server
that has self signed certificates. The customer just wants Xymon to
get through to the first page and check the content without having to
mess with the certificate. I thought putting nosslcert on that host
would do the trick, but I couldn't see that it changed anything on
the resulting page.
nosslcert turned the sslcert icon purple, but it didn't change the
behavior of the content test.
"nosslcert" means Xymon won't update an "sslcert" status. But since you
have one, it will turn purple. Use the "drop" command to delete the status.
We want to be able to skip the ssl warning and the need to click to
proceed to the page. Apparently curl, wget and nagios all have
options to do this (although I haven't actually tested that on
nagios) so I'd be surprised if Xymon doesn't.
Xymon doesn't care about who issues your certificates. So that isn't
your problem. What I think is the problem, is that Xymon will *only*
fetch the page on the URI that you provide. It will not follow a
redirect, not even a simple one like "http://www.foo.org/"; redirecting
to "http://www.foo.org/logon.html"; - if you want to check the logon
page, you'll have to provide that URL explicitly in hosts.cfg.
Regards,
Henrik