[Nagiosplug-devel] check_webapp plugin (very rough)

[Voon, Ton]

Barry,

Sorry, I haven't got round to responding. I was also kinda waiting for
direction from Karl ;)

You've highlighted the differences between your plugin and check_http and
there is some good extra functionality. We can certainly add it into the
contrib/ directory, but to move into the main plugin distribution will
probably require some work in the framework as we currently do not have a
utils.py for python scripts.

Can you add the plugin to SF (see the developer's guidelines at
http://nagiosplug.sourceforge.net/developer-guidelines.html) and we'll get
round to including it in the future release.

Ton


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barry Roberts [mailto:manithree at crosswinds.net] 
> Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 8:47 PM
> To: nagiosplug-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagiosplug-devel] check_webapp plugin (very rough)
> 
> 
> Hmm.  I sent this Monday, but I don't see it in the archive.  
> Did you get it?
> 
> Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:01:51 -0600
> From: Barry Roberts <manithree at crosswinds.net>
> To: "Voon, Ton" <Ton.Voon at egg.com>, 
> nagiosplug-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagiosplug-devel] check_webapp plugin (very rough)
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> Reply-To: Barry Roberts <manithree at crosswinds.net>
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> 
> Maybe I just couldn't figure out check_http, but there are 2 major
> things I couldn't make it do:
> 
> First, I need to load several URL's in sequence in ONE check.  For
> example, I have a test that logs in, loads up some data (through the
> web ui), changes it, does a calculation, then tests the result.  It
> hits 10 urls, most of which have expressions to match in the resulting
> html.
> 
> Second, the session cookie has to be maintained between these 
> url hits.
> 
> There's also another feature that I don't think check_http has that I
> CAN do with mine but haven't yet, and that is a dependent URL.  The
> purpose of that is to load all the images, js, css etc. required for a
> page but including that in the performance info for the "main" url.  I
> don't care how long each image, etc. load, just how long it takes to
> load the whole page.
> 
> One minor thing I just remembered is that check_webapp can have a
> "must match" expression and a "must not match" expression for each
> URL.
> 
> I only took a brief look at the check_http source, but it didn't seem
> to easily do everything I need to replace Sitecope.  But if it will I
> would be happy to use it.
> 
> The final thing I need to implement is another feature that Sitescope
> has.  I have to have the capability to parse enough of the returned
> html to submit a form included in it.  I think I can do that pretty
> easily in python.
> 
> If I've underestimated check_http, I apologize.  My plugin is pretty
> rough, but it was only a couple of hours of python hacking and an hour
> or so of testing.  Would have been quicker if I knew Python already.
> And it is sure nice to be on nagios instead of expensive, flaky
> Sitescope.
> 
> Thanks,
> Barry Roberts
> 
> On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 08:55:43AM +0100, Voon, Ton wrote:
> > Barry,
> > 
> > Looks interesting, but what extra functionality does this 
> provide over
> > check_http? We don't really want to introduce a new plugin 
> if the check can
> > be done through an existing plugin (long-term, I think Karl 
> is thinking of
> > changing check_http to use curl).
> > 
> > Ton


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