Check HTTP issue

Nagios Nagios Plugins support
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From the command line, this works:
./check_http -H 192.168.9.237 -u “/cognos8/gateway/cognosisapi.dll?b_action=xts.run&m=portal/main.xts&startwel=yes” -s “credential”

From WINDOWS.CFG, this does NOT work:
check_command check_http!-u “/cognos8/gateway/cognosisapi.dll?b_action=xts.run&m=portal/main.xts&startwel=yes” -s “credential” -t 5

Any idea why this works from CLI but not a CFG file?

Thanks!

2

you should define a my_check_http command like this:
define command{
command_name my_check_http
command_line nagios-dir/libexec/check_http -H “$ARG1$” -t 5 “$ARG2$” “$ARG3$” “$ARG4$” “$ARG5$”
}

and then, define your service as:

check_command my_check_http!192.168.9.237!-u!/cognos8/gateway/cognosisapi.dll?b_action=xts.run&m=portal/main.xts&startwel=yes!-s!credential

ps: I quickly wrote these lines, so they may not work directly; adjust them if need be :slight_smile:

3

Loose, with some adjustments (no quotes needed in command definition), it now seems to be working well.

Thank you! !lol

4

Spoke too soon. Still having an issue, using the new command definition. Getting a “bad request” warning now, so it may be with how the URL is getting passed, what with the “&” and all.

5

I’m getting a “Return code of 127 is out of bounds - plugin may be missing” error when trying to use the custom command. The custom command should be in commands.cfg, right?

Any ideas?

Thanks!

6

Solved it! Had to use double quotes around the URL to check, as there were control characters in the string.

Monitoring and reporting as desired. Thanks for the help!