Monitoring a webpage that requires auth
list Shane Presley
I have a Cisco web application that shows me the status of my environment. However, in order to access the status page, I first need to authenticate. I realize xymon has auth capabilities built into the http content test. But that doesn't seem to work in my environment. Once I log into the front page, I need to navigate to a second page..which is where my status is displayed. Is there any way to grab http content tests from that second page? Thanks
list Ryan Novosielski
Doesn't browsing to the second page directly prompt you to auth too? -- Sent from my Palm Pre
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On Feb 4, 2011 9:23, Shane Presley <user-f946ba3135e0@xymon.invalid> wrote:
I have a Cisco web application that shows me the status of my
environment. However, in order to access the status page, I first
need to authenticate.
I realize xymon has auth capabilities built into the http content
test. But that doesn't seem to work in my environment. Once I log
into the front page, I need to navigate to a second page..which is
where my status is displayed.
Is there any way to grab http content tests from that second page?
Thanks
list Shane Presley
I'm afraid not. If I start my session with the URL of the status page, it redirects me to the front auth page. But once I authenticate it takes me to the generic start page. Not my status page.
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On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Ryan Novosielski <user-ae4522577e16@xymon.invalid> wrote:Doesn't browsing to the second page directly prompt you to auth too? -- Sent from my Palm Pre On Feb 4, 2011 9:23, Shane Presley <user-f946ba3135e0@xymon.invalid> wrote: I have a Cisco web application that shows me the status of my environment. However, in order to access the status page, I first need to authenticate. I realize xymon has auth capabilities built into the http content test. But that doesn't seem to work in my environment. Once I log into the front page, I need to navigate to a second page..which is where my status is displayed. Is there any way to grab http content tests from that second page? Thanks
list Phil Meech
I do a similar thing with a load of Procurve Mobility Controllers, though I used a custom ext script to achive it; it's relatively simple to do with Curl.
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On 4 February 2011 15:10, Shane Presley <user-f946ba3135e0@xymon.invalid> wrote:I'm afraid not. If I start my session with the URL of the status page, it redirects me to the front auth page. But once I authenticate it takes me to the generic start page. Not my status page. On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Ryan Novosielski <user-ae4522577e16@xymon.invalid> wrote:Doesn't browsing to the second page directly prompt you to auth too? -- Sent from my Palm Pre On Feb 4, 2011 9:23, Shane Presley <user-f946ba3135e0@xymon.invalid> wrote: I have a Cisco web application that shows me the status of my environment. However, in order to access the status page, I first need to authenticate. I realize xymon has auth capabilities built into the http content test. But that doesn't seem to work in my environment. Once I log into the front page, I need to navigate to a second page..which is where my status is displayed. Is there any way to grab http content tests from that second page? Thanks
list Ralph Mitchell
If it's "remembering" the authentication via cookies, something like this would probably work: #!/bin/bash CURLOPTS="-b cookies -c cookies -s -S -L -m 30" curl $CURLOPTS -o authpage.html http://cisco-thing.domain.com curl $CURLOPTS -o statuspage.html http://cisco-thing.domain.com/statuspage.html then you extract whatever you need from the status page to test it for "correctness" and send the result to Xymon: $BB $BBDISP "status cisco-thing,domain,com.status $COLOR `date` $MESSAGE" The COLOR & MESSAGE variables would be constructed during the check for "correctness". Ralph Mitchell
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On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Shane Presley <user-f946ba3135e0@xymon.invalid>wrote:
I'm afraid not. If I start my session with the URL of the status page, it redirects me to the front auth page. But once I authenticate it takes me to the generic start page. Not my status page. On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Ryan Novosielski <user-ae4522577e16@xymon.invalid> wrote:Doesn't browsing to the second page directly prompt you to auth too? -- Sent from my Palm Pre On Feb 4, 2011 9:23, Shane Presley <user-f946ba3135e0@xymon.invalid> wrote: I have a Cisco web application that shows me the status of my environment. However, in order to access the status page, I first need to authenticate. I realize xymon has auth capabilities built into the http content test. But that doesn't seem to work in my environment. Once I log into the front page, I need to navigate to a second page..which is where my status is displayed. Is there any way to grab http content tests from that second page? Thanks