Zabbix Web Scenarios NeedTo

[Pedro.Almeida]

Hi there,

Been missing some stuff on web scenarios:
- Ability to manually specify connect-to-IP-address to request an URL (to test availability of that URL at different origin servers. (not stick to the IP(s) that the name on the URL resolves-to)
- Ability to pass SNI
- Ability to select SSL/TLS version
- History/Trends settings for WebScenario items

On (most) HTTP sites you can put the IP in the URL and pass an host header. Unfortunately this won't work for some (specially if behind reverse proxies).
This will not work at all for HTTPS, namely using TLS where you have to set SNI as well as passing a proper URL.

If you want to test all your server pools for proper working you have to use external scripts.

A flag to enable debug on a webscenario base would be great to log requests/responses instead of having to activate debugging for all the hundrends of webscenarios just to fix one.


Any ideia if these are being addressed?

[pbychikhin]

+1
Curl has the option CURLOPT_CONNECT_TO for this purpose.
It would be really good if Zabbix implement that option in web scenarios.

[kloczek]

+1
Curl has the option CURLOPT_CONNECT_TO for this purpose.
It would be really good if Zabbix implement that option in web scenarios.

Seems you have problems with understanding how web scenario is working.
It probes over http remote host which is defined in monitored host interface and it does it from zabbix server or proxy (if host with web scenario is monitored over proxy).

[pbychikhin]

Seems you have problems with understanding how web scenario is working.
It probes over http remote host which is defined in monitored host interface and it does it from zabbix server or proxy (if host with web scenario is monitored over proxy).

So you're saying that the host name from the URL option of a Web scenario step configuration is not resolved? And Zabbix uses IP address (which one?) that is configured in Host tab of host configuration instead? Please confirm that I understood you correctly.

[vesper1978]

- Ability to manually specify connect-to-IP-address to request an URL (to test availability of that URL at different origin servers. (not stick to the IP(s) that the name on the URL resolves-to)

It already does this. Specify the IP you want to connect to in the URL field (http(s)://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx). Then in the Headers field use the Host Header (Host: site.com).