[Nagiosplug-devel] check_http plugin suggestion

[J.T. Moore]

Hello,
 
    It appears that the check_http plugin ignores the  --string option 
    when the http status code is 4xx
 
    Normally if the string is not found, the plugin sets the service state
    to critical, but if a 4xx status code is returned, the service state is
    set to warning even if the string is not present.
 
    I suppose there may be times where this logic may be preferred, for
    example a http 200 status code with different content would indicate 
    a likely defacement and is a critical problem where as a http 400 
    status code would indicate a less serious service disruption or 
    configuration error
 
    If people are actually using the above logic, it shouldn't be changed,
but
    in my case it would be nice to add a option to always compare the string
    value and always treat the string not being found as a critical error.
 
 
    What I am doing is using Nagios and a few other tools to set up a
"director"
    for a fault tolerant web farm. To me a warning is, the page look longer
to
    load than is desirable (as specified with the -w argument). A critical
error is not
    returning a page with the specified string (specified with the -s
argument)
    before the critical time (specified with the -c argument). Ideally, I
would
    like to write an event handler that wouldn't do anything about warnings
    in a soft state, but that would stop sending traffic to a server if it
was in
    a hard warning state or any type of critical state.
 
Thanks for the cool tools,
 
J.T. Moore
International Auto Parts
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