On 8 November 2011 22:18, Corey Quinn <co...@sequestered.net> wrote: > What's the canonically "proper" way to check an external website (that I > don't control) within Nagios? WHat I've done historically has been to define > a dummy "urlhost" that I then hang various check_http checks off of, but that > seems wrong somehow.
I don't think there is a 'proper' way. I would think you're probably best off thinking about the parent relationships though. If you lose contact with all your external websites, then what is the furthest thing that might have gone down? Is that the customer-facing interface of your ISP's router maybe? I would hang your external web service checks on that. Obviously if you don't own these external sites then it's polite to check them infrequently and ask the site owner if it's okay. Personally I think there's no real substitute for setting up a monitoring system or two elsewhere out there in the internet if you want to be really sure a site is available to customers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null