[Nagios-users] Checking External URLs

2011-11-08 Thread Corey Quinn
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. In talking to other folks in #nagios on

Re: [Nagios-users] Checking External URLs

2011-11-08 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] Checking External URLs 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

Re: [Nagios-users] Checking External URLs

2011-11-08 Thread Jim Avery
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