Re: URL content checking [Vote]

[Martin Pala]

+1

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jan-Henrik Haukeland" <address@hidden>
To: "The monit developer list" <address@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 1:29 PM
Subject: Re: URL content checking [Vote]


> This is a nice feature and I propose that we try to implement this in 
> monit.  We need to vote, if we should add this feature in monit. So 
> please cast your votes!
> 
> Here is mine +1
> 
> The proposal is as follows:
> ------------------------------------
> Add content monitoring to monit  so the following requirements are meet:
> 
> Check if a URL is up (responding)
> Check if a URL does or does not contain a string
> 
> The only protocol supported for URL testing is HTTP(S). We suggest the 
> following syntax in monit's control file for this new functionality:
> 
> On Dec 2, 2004, at 9:06 AM, Martin Pala wrote:
> 
> >  check host myhost with address 192.168.1.1
> >     if failed url http://user:address@hidden:8080/index.php
> >       [and content {contains|notcontains|equals|notequal} 
> > "^myregular*expression$"]
> >       [with checksum 8f7f419955cefa0b33a2ba316cba3659]
> >       then alert
> 
> In addition I would like to suggest a short-form (not quite sure about 
> the syntax, only that a short-form would be nice):
> 
> check URL myURLCollection
> if failed urls [
> http://user:address@hidden/foobar?querystring
> http://user:address@hidden/foobar
> http://blabla3.com/foobar?querystring
> http://labla4.com/foobar?querystring
> http://user:address@hidden/foobar
> ....] # Space or newline separate url-entries
> then <action>
> 
> The rationale for this varian is that if one should want to monitor 
> several hundreds of URLs it is less to write and you can group URLs 
> into collections. The URL-test should be conducted as follows,
> - Test all URLs in the list in one poll-session
> - If one or more URL failed, only send one and only one alert report 
> listing those URLs that failed.
> 
> --
> Jan-Henrik Haukeland
> 
> 
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