On Sunday 09 September 2007, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: > Mick wrote: > > I want to monitor that a webcam is up & functioning. When I use the > > check_http Nagios command the webcam returns a request for passwd > > authentication. This is because the webcam GUI requires passwd > > authentication. Nagios registers a "HTTP WARNING: HTTP/1.0 401 > > Unauthorized" message and of courses generates an alert. > > > > How would you recommend I monitor this webcam with Nagios? > > Can't you add the username and password to the HTTP url? > > Like http://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/whatever/path
Thanks Arturo, Yes I can, but I thought that exposing authentication details in plain text config files is not particularly safe. Isn't there another way? -- Regards, Mick
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