Hello Norbert, your problem, this is for M/Monit the central Server for Monit.
> A bit of search brought me to > https://mmonit.com/documentation/http-api/Examples/cURL > which seems exactely what I want to do, alas, the very first invocation > given > Could someone please explain how to set up read/write access to monit > via curl? It seems that the wiki page/documentation is incorrect. The Monit interface is not documented well, but very simple to handle. But it is more useful to use the M/Monit server to handle this request. With regards, Lutz Appendage: A simple script to get the summary. $1 is the monit hostname (the port is 2812) $2 is a service or nothing A simple sample script only: #!/bin/ksh OS=`uname -s | tr 'A-Z' 'a-z'` if [ "$OS" = 'aix' ] ; then TOKEN=`date '+%Y%m%d%H%M%S'"$$""$RANDOM" | openssl md5 | cut -d ' ' -f 2` elif [ "$OS" = 'darwin' ] ; then TOKEN=`md5 -q -s "\`date '+%Y%m%d%H%M%S'\`""$$""$RANDOM"` elif [ "$OS" = 'linux' ] ; then TOKEN=`date '+%Y%m%d%H%M%S'\""$$""$RANDOM" | md5sum -t - | cut -d ' ' -f 1` else TOKEN=`date '+%Y%m%d%H%M%S'\""$$""$RANDOM" | md5sum -t - | cut -d ' ' -f 1` fi if [ -n "$1" ]; then HOST="$1" else HOST=`hostname` fi if [ -n "$2" ]; then SERVICE="service=$2&" else SERVICE="" fi # The escape character. ESC=`printf '\033'` # Esc x1B 033  cat <<MONIT | \ curl -k -X "POST /_summary HTTP/1.0" -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" \ -b "securitytoken=${TOKEN}" \ -u admin:monit -d @- https://${HOST}:2812 | \ sed -e '/<.*html>/,/<\/html>/s/.*<\/h2>\(.*\)<hr>.*/\1/' | \ sed -e "s/${ESC}\[[0-9][0-9]*\;*[0-9]*[Km]//g" | \ sed -e 's/[─│├┼┤┌┬┐└┴┘]//g' | sed -e '/^$/d' ${SERVICE}format=text&securitytoken=${TOKEN} MONIT return
