[Nagiosplug-devel] Check_http suggestion

[Mark Mathieson]

Greetings All,

I was wondering if anyone had considered forcing, or at least allowing, the check_http plug-in to use the local *_proxy variables.  It doesn't appear to use them at the moment.

It may seem an odd sort of request, so I'll explain the situation briefly.  I have a Nagios server that can see the outside world directly, but all of the internal users use a proxy.  I'm running check_http to verify that web access is available to users and various internal services.  Thing is, because the existing check_http doesn't use a proxy but the users do, if the proxy link goes down, Nagios thinks everything is fine and I don't find out that it's not until users start screaming.

I've tried embedding the call in a script, exporting the *_proxy variables manually, but check_http happily ignores the variables and will continue returned success values due to the direct link, even if you turn the proxy off!  I can't turn the direct link off, as there are other checks that rely on it.

My only other option appears to be writing my own plug-in leveraging wget.

Any thoughts?

Cheers,

Mark Mathieson
Senior Systems Engineer
computer concepts limited


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