Need Web Monitoring Examples

[dcrandall]

Hi,

I'm working with building Web Monitoroing Scenarios. I have a basic page check working fine. The problem comes with trying to do more complex checks like 'login and verify text', or 'submit form and verify text'. I can't seem to get the POST variables to operate correctly, and the documentation is not helpful at all. The screenshots are so terrible I can't even read the text in the example of logging in.

I think instead of me describing everything I've tried, it would be more helpful if people could post examples of their working step-throughs - particulary logging in, and form submission since these are what my boss is asking for.

This is extremely frustrating, and any help would be highly appreciated.

Thanks,

Daniel

[dcrandall]

So, I guess the eerie silence on this topic means that nobody actually uses the Web Monitoring feature? C'mon. That can't be true. Let's have examples of working Web Monitors. Specifically anything beyond "fetched a page, got 200, and a required word" in complexity. Multi-step scenarios with log in being the holy grail.

[cmuench]

I too am in need of this very thing.

http://site24x7.com/index.html does exactly what I need but you have to pay for it.
I was hopeing Zabbix could handle it for me however the examples are not advanced at all int he manual.

[lprikockis]

I'm very very interested in this as well. I really need to be able to submit a few values to a form, submit it and then check for text in the resulting page.

the examples in the docs seem to hint at this, but don't quite explain how to do it.

[cmuench]

Well my problem I found out was that my forms where using JavaScript to submit which obviously zabbix can't understand. For my simple forms I just made a vbScript or perl script to submit my values.

Much easier.

[Akao]

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More examples for complexer web monitoring wouldnt be bad.

[Predatorian]

I am also interested in this.

However, Zabbix uses libcurl to do its webchecks, which will not parse, execute, or display javascript, because javascript is executed client side. I am however exploring an idea of using w3m to open the page, and have a zabbix_agentd call see if it can see the text from the screen that way.

[androponia]

hi cmuench can you post an example of your solution? I have some sso saml login and cant make it work!

Thanks