Re: URL content checking [Vote]

[Jan-Henrik Haukeland]

This is a nice feature and I propose that we try to implement this in 
monit.  We need to vote, if we should add this feature in monit. So 
please cast your votes!

Here is mine +1

The proposal is as follows:
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Add content monitoring to monit  so the following requirements are meet:

Check if a URL is up (responding)
Check if a URL does or does not contain a string

The only protocol supported for URL testing is HTTP(S). We suggest the 
following syntax in monit's control file for this new functionality:

On Dec 2, 2004, at 9:06 AM, Martin Pala wrote:

>  check host myhost with address 192.168.1.1
>     if failed url http://user:address@hidden:8080/index.php
>       [and content {contains|notcontains|equals|notequal} 
> "^myregular*expression$"]
>       [with checksum 8f7f419955cefa0b33a2ba316cba3659]
>       then alert

In addition I would like to suggest a short-form (not quite sure about 
the syntax, only that a short-form would be nice):

        check URL myURLCollection
                if failed urls [
                        http://user:address@hidden/foobar?querystring
                        http://user:address@hidden/foobar
                        http://blabla3.com/foobar?querystring
                        http://labla4.com/foobar?querystring
                        http://user:address@hidden/foobar
                        ....] # Space or newline separate url-entries
                then <action>

The rationale for this varian is that if one should want to monitor 
several hundreds of URLs it is less to write and you can group URLs 
into collections. The URL-test should be conducted as follows,
        - Test all URLs in the list in one poll-session
	- If one or more URL failed, only send one and only one alert report 
listing those URLs that failed.

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Jan-Henrik Haukeland