I've been converting from running an installation of BigBrother professional to Xymon (4.3.18), and I've had some complaints that the HTTP test is impacting a few of our servers (lots of back-end database requests and calculations for a generated page that is being tested for availability.)
I didn't understand why nobody was complaining previously, until I saw that BigBro was set up to use the "curl" command with the "-I" option (aka the "--head" option) to send a "HEAD" request to the server. The BigBro web test used this setting:
....
hawkeye{root}169: grep curl etc/bbdef-server.sh
# OR USE curl, WHICH IS BETTER...
LYNX="/usr/bin/curl -g -s -S -m 45 -I -k --connect-timeout 15 --user-agent 'Mozilla/5.0' "
hawkeye{root}170:
....
Is there some equivalent ability in Xymon to just issue a "HEAD" request when testing http and https services?
I expected I'd find an equivalent option for use in the hosts.cfg file in Xymon, but haven't been able to find it if it's there. Any ideas on how to
-Andrew