More on the yes and no.<div><br></div><div>Extending nagios with this kind of plugin is very easy to do.</div><div>be sure to install wget and/or curl and/or appropriate perl modules.</div><div>Any of those 3 can do the job. The all allow for credentials being sent for authentication of need be.</div>
<div>PERL modules/objects offer very high level programming, almost cut/paste from docs on CPAN etc.</div><div>-joseph</div><div><br><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Nathan C. Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nathan.smith@ipmvs.com">nathan.smith@ipmvs.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Yes and no. Out of the box, no, but you could write (or
find) a script that grabbed a page and check it against a prior version or a
hash of the page, or grep for certain content. I’ve seen a technique
for grabbing web content described in at least one Nagios book.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">-Nate</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 18, 2010 10:00 AM</span></p><div class="im"><br>
<b>To:</b> Central Iowa Linux Users Group<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Can Nagios monitor web content? (ex...alert if a site has
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Bryon. </p>
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