https monitoring 🔗 link

Hi

Is it possible to let hobbit log on to a https protected webpage, that
is POSTing username and password to a form on the webpage and let hobbit
monitor server respond ?

if so, how is it done ?

Jon Bjorn 
user-5c8e7718045c@xymon.invalid

On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 07:18:04PM +0000, Jon Bjorn Njalsson wrote:

Yes, but it can be a bit tricky to setup.

There's an example in the bb-hosts man-page, in the "HTTP Tests"
section. See
http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/help/manpages/man5/bb-hosts.5.html#lbAR .

If you have a form:

       <form action="/cgi-bin/form.cgi" method="post">
            <p>Given name<input type="text" name="givenname"></p>
            <p>Surname<input type="text" name="surname"></p>
            <input type="submit" value="Send">
       </form>

and it must return the string "Welcome" when you post it, then you can
test it with this in bb-hosts (simulating that you put "Henrik
Stoerner" in the form fields):

post;http://www.foo.com/cgi-bin/form.cgi;givenname=Henrik&surname=Stoerner;Welcome

Hobbit handles both "http" and "https" URL's as long as you compile it
with SSL support enabled.

The method does require that it's a genuine HTML form that is being
posted; you may be able to figure out what data to send for e.g. a
JavaScript form, but it's often requires either a network trace to
capture a session, or some knowledge of how the form is supposed to
work.


Henrik

  Hi All,

Upon building a new instance of Xymon, i ran into a wierd issue which
I've been troubleshooting for hours with no luck. I'm trying to monitor
HTTPS on a few hosts. Without much luck, I looked around for an external/
public host running https:

91.189.89.234  shipit.ubuntu.com # https://shipit.ubuntu.com/

I got this wierd message:


https://shipit.ubuntu.com/ -


  Bad Request

Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand. 
Reason: You're speaking plain HTTP to an SSL-enabled server port. 
Instead use the HTTPS scheme to access this URL, please

    Hint: *https://shipit.ubuntu.com/*

Apache/2.2.8 (Ubuntu) mod_ssl/2.2.8 OpenSSL/0.9.8g user-df27a39ea0fa@xymon.invalid Port 443


It doesnt make that much sense to me since i did build xymon with SSL support.
Anyone got any ideas on how/where to go about troubleshooting this? I have a
seperate instance of Xymon that is able to check HTTPS sites without any issue.

Regards,
Cami

Try adding the port number like so:

91.189.89.234  shipit.ubuntu.com # https://shipit.ubuntu.com:443

(works for me when monitoring a vmware status webpage at port 8333)

Regards,

Marijn

Hi Cami,

Possibly a stupid question, but if you built xymon from source - did you
compile it with OpenSSL libraries (it asks during configure)?

Regards,
Phil

On 22 July 2010 14:29, Cami <user-1062473dd2aa@xymon.invalid> wrote: