[Nagiosplug-help] help with check_http + string check

[Eric]

Hello. I would like to use check_http to check a webpage for a certain word
to see if it's working correctly. If I run check_http from the command line,
it works fine:

[root at nagios ~]# check_http -H uranus -u "
http://uranus/cognos8/cgi-bin/cognos.cgi?b_action=xts.run&m=portal/main.xts&startwel=yes"
-f follow --string=Query
HTTP OK: HTTP/1.1 200 OK - 2059 bytes in 0.149 second response time
|time=0.148962s;;;0.000000 size=2059B;;;0

I know that it's checking the page correctly because if I query for a word
that isn't on that page I get an error:

[root at nagios ~]# check_http -H uranus -u "
http://uranus/cognos8/cgi-bin/cognos.cgi?b_action=xts.run&m=portal/main.xts&startwel=yes"
-f follow --string=blah
HTTP CRITICAL: HTTP/1.1 200 OK - string not found - 2059 bytes in 0.148
second response time |time=0.148124s;;;0.000000 size=2059B;;;0

I have my configuration file for this website configured like this:

define service{
use generic-service ; Inherit default values from a template
host_name uranus
service_description Check page content for the word password
check_command check_http! -H uranus -u "
http://uranus/cognos8/cgi-bin/cognos.cgi?b_action=xts.run&m=portal/main.xts&startwel=yes"
-f follow --string=Query
}

I force a check in Nagios and see this in the Nagios logs:

[1259172769] EXTERNAL COMMAND:
SCHEDULE_FORCED_HOST_SVC_CHECKS;uranus;1259172769
[1259172774] SERVICE ALERT: uranus;Check page content for the word
password;CRITICAL;SOFT;1;HTTP CRITICAL: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found - string not
found - 478 bytes in 0.003 second response time

I see that it's getting a 404 error. Is it not handling the URL the same way
in the config file as it does from the command line? What can I do to fix
this? Thank you..
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