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title = "Nagios Curl Plugin"
description = "a [Nagios](http://www.nagios.org) plugin replacing check_http"
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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 
mainly with chunked transfer encoding, thus I hacked a plugin using the
excellent [libCurl library](http://curl.haxx.se).

The development area is accessible at:  
[https://github.com/andreasbaumann/nagios-plugin-curl](https://github.com/andreasbaumann/nagios-plugin-curl).