Re: [smokeping-users] Curl probe that checks if string in page exists.
On 17/09/2016 09:58, Nicola Ferrari (#554252) wrote: On 16/09/2016 21:28, Vincent Hoffman-Kazlauskas wrote: Yes the curl probe should meet your needs. The expect argument should be fine for what you want although I seem to recall it may also match the headers not just the body. That's ok anyway, I don't think this would be a problem.. Thanks Vincent for your response!! I'll let you know! Have a nice day N Thanks Vincent, I can confirm your config works like a charm!! N -- +-+ | Linux User #554252 | +-+ ___ smokeping-users mailing list smokeping-users@lists.oetiker.ch https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users
Re: [smokeping-users] Curl probe that checks if string in page exists.
On 16/09/2016 21:28, Vincent Hoffman-Kazlauskas wrote: Yes the curl probe should meet your needs. The expect argument should be fine for what you want although I seem to recall it may also match the headers not just the body. That's ok anyway, I don't think this would be a problem.. Thanks Vincent for your response!! I'll let you know! Have a nice day N -- +-+ | Linux User #554252 | +-+ ___ smokeping-users mailing list smokeping-users@lists.oetiker.ch https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users
Re: [smokeping-users] Curl probe that checks if string in page exists.
On 16/09/2016 17:49, Nicola Ferrari (#554252) wrote: > Hi everybody. > > In our company we run a service provided by an external company on a > website. > > Just for testing purposes, I would like to check the status of that > service by checking if the index page's body contains the "service > unavailable" string (which is usually displayed when the service is down). > > Using curl in shell environment, I achieve this by issuing this command: > if curl --silent https://www.example.com|grep -q "Service is down"; > then echo "NO"; else echo "YES"; fi > > I would like to turn this into a Smokeping probe.. > I've just token a look at the docs, and found this: > http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/probe/Curl.en.html > > Is this the best way to do that? > Any suggestion/example about the probe's config? > Shoud I use regexp? Yes the curl probe should meet your needs. The expect argument should be fine for what you want although I seem to recall it may also match the headers not just the body. The sample config I have is *** Probes *** + Curl # probe-specific variables binary = /usr/local/bin/curl step = 60 pings = 5 forks = 10 offset = 50% timeout = 5 # a default for this target-specific variable urlformat = http://%host%/ *** Targets *** + WEB probe = Curl menu = Web title = Web (http) ++ TESTSITE menu = Test website title = test.site.co.uk via curl host = test.site.net expect = Hello world urlformat = http://%host%/wordpress/?p=1 Hope thats useful Vince > > Thanks! > Nick > > ___ smokeping-users mailing list smokeping-users@lists.oetiker.ch https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users
