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diff --git a/content/software/nagios_plugin_curl.md b/content/software/nagios_plugin_curl.md index bd83c2c..1867b9f 100644 --- a/content/software/nagios_plugin_curl.md +++ b/content/software/nagios_plugin_curl.md @@ -3,17 +3,15 @@ title = "Nagios Curl Plugin" description = "a [Nagios](http://www.nagios.org) plugin replacing check_http" +++ -In my job I'm sometimes the deputy of the system administrator. -Using nagios/zabbix/SNMP for monitoring I needed a decent plugin -for Nagios to do HTTP alive checks. The standard one had some problems +In my job I'm taking care of a monitoring system using nagios. +For monitoring web sites I needed a decent plugin for Nagios to do +HTTP(s) alive checks. The standard 'check_http' plugin had some problems mainly with chunked transfer encoding, thus I hacked a plugin using the excellent [libCurl library](http://curl.haxx.se). Further development goes on as 'check_curl' in -[monitoring-plugins](https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins) -in branch -feature_check_curl. If you want help out testing or developing it -should happen there. +[monitoring-plugins](https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins). +If you want help out testing or developing it should happen there. An old archived version of the plugin can be found at http://git.andreasbaumann.cc/cgit/nagios-plugin-curl/. |