Monitoring authenticated SSL sites

[mbconn]

I've been trying to figure out how Zabbix monitors https sites which use certs for authentication. From reading forum posts it seems that curl is used somehow? I'd be very grateful if someone had a brief cookbook on how to get this up and running in Zabbix?

thanks
Michael

[mbconn]

solved

in case this is of any use to others, I figured this out. I use the following script (in /etc/zabbix/externalscripts)

#! /bin/sh
host=$1

status=`curl --silent -k --cert /home/<wherever>/root-ca/public/<certname> https://$host/monitor.html`

case $status in
"up") echo "1";;
*) echo "0";;
esac


i.e. if the curl command returns "up" a "1" is returned to Zabbix.