RE: [WhatsUp Forum] Plugin for HTTPS

[Anthony Franklin]

Title: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] Plugin for HTTPS

Okay,   You do NOT have to know Unix, but read on:  If you are familiar with Unix, you have heard of Crontabs.  Crontabs are used for scheduling on Unix platforms.   There is something similar for Windows platforms.  There is a free version and a paid version.  The paid version is “free” for 30 days.  The free version is free… However there is a difference between the two – although both are easy to use, you may have to play with the free version, or read the directions, you will have to edit a text file called “cron.tab” directly to schedule your events (only one line per event is needed and the events run at what ever interval you like as frequently as every minute).    Before I tell you where to get it, I want to tell I have used nncron for over a year without a glitch. I suggest you evaluate the paid version in order to get a feel for how powerful the program is —scheduling scripts is only the beginning.   Just before the evaluation period expires, either buy it; stop the service, if you installed the service; or uninstall the program and switch to the free version.  The free version, by the way, is called nncronlite.  If you continue using the paid version beyond the eval period, you will receive a registration reminder every time it calls a script.  I happened to catch mine after about an hour or so and had a window open for each minute.  That is not too much to worry about, except if you don’t look at the server for days after the eval expires.   The use of nncron is straight forward, but if you need help, send a message.  You may get nncron and nncronlite from many sites, but I get it from the person who authored the program.  Read the first three paragraphs at the following url to see if it is something you can use.   http://www.nncron.ru/   Give me some feedback.       Anthony Franklin, Network Engineer Information Technology Services University of West Florida Pensacola, Florida 32514 850.474.3243 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anderson, Eric E. Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 7:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] Plugin for HTTPS   That would open the doors to ALL sorts of (missing) capabilities.  *looks on the floor*  Oh look, I think I found that suggestion. ;-)  I've tried for too long for workarounds and going to start looking at other products.  Third party plug-ins we've bought and used in the past for WUG even seem to be dropping off the market.  It's a great product but I think there are a few easy features that could be added and haven't been responded to... I think many could create a script/program to do either of these requests in an afternoon, then tested, implemented and distributed within a reasonable amount of time.   -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Cook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 8:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] Plugin for HTTPS ... But how do you get WUG to run the script?  I could write so many batch, vbs or perl scripts to monitor anything I wanted, but WUG doesn't give me a way to run the scripts.  I want to have command monitor!  I know it has been asked for many times, but we still don't have it.   -----Original Message-----    >From: "Anthony Franklin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>    >Sent: 3/5/04 7:40:59 AM    >To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>    >Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] Plugin for HTTPS    >    >I have a way use What's Up Gold, easily, to monitor sites that have re-directs, which would normally cause the content scan to fail, and monitor ssl sites for content, using a small programming language called Rebol.     >    >Go to www.rebol.com and see how small (700k), but yet how powerfull this programming language is.  The Rebol community is pretty large, so there are many scripts out there for a lot of uses, but none specific to What's Up Gold, yet. Once someone has said they have taken the time to do that, or just read about it, I will take the time to post an awesome interim solution the What's Up community has been awaiting.    >    >The completed script is around 10 lines or less.  You will be amazed on how much such a small programming language can do.    >    >At least try it on a development box.  I have mentioned Rebol over time in the forum.  I am pushing this so hard because once the What's Up community starts using it, we as a communitiy will find even greater uses and someone will design scripts that will solve other peoples issues and save us all time and effort without installing large programming language like Perl, and without writing nearly as much code.    >    >    >    >-----Original Message-----    >From: Tate, Craig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]    >Sent: Fri 3/5/2004 9:04 AM    >To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'    >Cc:    >Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] Plugin for HTTPS    >    >    >2nd that...    >    >    >-----Original Message-----    >From: brandon.baker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]    >Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 7:56 AM    >To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'    >Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] Plugin for HTTPS    >    >    >Virgil,    >    >That only checks port availability.  A 404 error would show as up.  HTTPS content scan is what we are all clamoring for.    >    >Brandon    >    >-----Original Message-----    >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]    >Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 6:28 PM    >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]    >Subject: Re: [WhatsUp Forum] Plugin for HTTPS    >    >    >    >HTTPS is a standard TCP service running on port 443 - you shouldn't need a separate plugin to monitor it.  Just create a custom TCP/IP service and set the port to 443.  It should work fine.    >    >- virgil    >    >    >    >    >"Anderson, Eric E." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>    >Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]    >    >    >03/04/2004 06:22 PM    >    >    >Please respond to    >[EMAIL PROTECTED]    >    >    >    >To    >[EMAIL PROTECTED]    >    >cc    >    >Fax to    >    >Subject    >[WhatsUp Forum] Plugin for HTTPS       >    >               >    >    >    >    >I know many have asked and I've tried creating a VB plug-in that would permit HTTPS monitoring without much luck.  A while back an individual was able to create a VB plug-in (the first in history) and provided the source code.  I didn't have much luck with it either as I wasn't even able to get the compiled version installed correctly on a couple of systems to reverse engineer and tweak.  Mostly due to available time.    >    >Does anyone know of a 3rd party plug-in (somewhat highly configurable) or otherwise that would monitor HTTPS sites?  Would someone with knowledge be willing to create one as a project for a fee?    >    >    >    >