Web monitoring and proxies.

[gimpel]

Hello,

I'm using ZABBIX 1.4 on CentOS 5 compiled with curl support and would like to know if, and if yes how it is possible to monitor Web content, when a proxy sits inbetween.

The check should perform a login on one of our HTTPS sites.

Currently i simply get a timeout message in zabbix_server.log

 4625:20070619:160004 Timeout while answering request
  4623:20070619:160028 Timeout while answering request
  4624:20070619:160029 Timeout while answering request
  4625:20070619:160030 Timeout while answering request
  4623:20070619:160059 Timeout while answering request
  4624:20070619:160059 Timeout while answering request
  4625:20070619:160101 Timeout while answering request
  4697:20070619:160110 Error doing curl_easy_perform [a timeout was reached]

[gimpel]

Hmm, I'm not really sure if this is a proxy problem, actually. But I assume so.

I'm now monitoring simply the ZABBIX frontend via IP address (should in theory return to localhost) and that works OK. Status is correct, nice graphs.

The other page is a .jsp page, and I try to monitor it in 2 steps:
- check if page is available at all (return code 200)
- check if login works (with POST username=blah&password=foo&hidden=e)

And that one simply.. hangs.. "in progress" at step 1 all the time.

[unizabbix]

Error doing curl_easy_perform [a timeout was reached]

Hi all, i've the same problem!

My web application is monitored by a scenario every 10 minutes.
Randomly the trigger, that i've setted on the application, goes on and the follow message is writted in the log of the server :
Error doing curl_easy_perform [a timeout was reached]

It's a bug? I use zabbix 1.4.5 on CentOS 5

[bashman]

I have the same problem with zabbix v1.8.1 and:

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 9.04
Release:        9.04
Codename:       jaunty

I have three scenarios of one step and five of two steps, all of them with 60 seconds interval