[Nagiosplug-devel] WebInject as a Nagios http pluging

[Stanley Hopcroft]

Dear Sir,

I am writing to thank you for your letter and say,

On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 04:57:28PM -0500, Corey Goldberg wrote:
> Hello..
> 
> WebInject is a perl/xml based web/http test harness (free and open source).
> In the latest release, we have added a mode that allows it produce 
> output that is compatible for being used as a plugin with the Nagios.
> 
> It allows you to define a suite of functional tests in an external xml file that
> is then executed and verified against your applocation/service under 
> test.
> 
> SSL/cookies/parsing/etc is supported.  Hopefully this is useful to some Nagios users.  
> 
> general webinject info is available at the website:  http://www.webinject.org
> info about the Nagios plugin mode is here:  http://www.webinject.org/plugin.html
> 
> there are also developer and user forums if anyone has comments/questions:  http://www.webinject.org/cgi/yabb/YaBB.cgi
> 

this looks like a great product for those wishing to 

1 test sequences of web pages (web transactions) that comprise some 
public function (search or registration),

2 but don't want to roll their own with WWW::Automate and friends

In particular it may win you some business from the Automated web page 
testing services such as http://www.dMeasure.com (nice interface but 
really only tests your ISPs connectivity [from different locations] and 
that your web server is accepting connections ...).

It's hard to imagine a nicer way of specifying the sequence of web page 
tests than you have done; nice job.

I wish you well with it.

(In my use of similar tools that the hardest thing about this is 
actually finding what the browser is sending to each page. It looks like 
you are moving along the path of a web proxy to record what the browser 
is sending [me, I use P::RD to chug through tethereal traces])

> -Corey Goldberg

Yours sincerely.

-- 
Stanley Hopcroft

Network specialist, IT Infrastructure
IP Australia
Ph: (02) 6283 3189  Fax: (02) 6281 1353
PO Box 200 Woden  ACT 2606
http://www.ipaustralia.gov.au
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