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This plugin tests the HTTP service on the specified host. It can test normal (HTTP) and secure (HTTPS) servers, follow redirects, search for strings and regular expressions, check connection times, and report on certificate expiration times.

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titleProxy

In the following examples, you will see references to myproxyip and proxy_port. Please replace this information with your own proxy IP and port numbersnumber.

Debugging with curl

If you have trouble using check_http, you can start to query the URL with curl:

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Code Block
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OMD[mysite]:~/lib/nagios/plugins$ ./check_http '-u' 'https://www.google.com/' '--ssl' '--onredirect=follow' '-j' 'CONNECT' '--sni' '-p' 'proxy_port' 'myproxyip' 'www.google.com'


For a detailed log, you can use --verbose at the end of the command:

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OMD[mysite]:~/lib/nagios/plugins$ ./check_http '-u' 'https://www.google.com/' '--ssl' '--onredirect=follow' '-j' 'CONNECT' '--sni' '-p' 'proxy_port' 'myproxyip' 'www.google.com' --verbose


For more information, you can use --help command flag.

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OMD[mysite]:~/lib/nagios/plugins$ ./check_http --help

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