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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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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

Debugging Regular Expressions (Regex)

status.cloud.google.com

In the following example, we are using regular expressions on status.cloud.google.com to gather Access Content Manager information. 

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