check_http_bulk

Project Notes

Usage of ./cmd/check_http_bulk:

Read hostnames from a file or STDIN and do a single nagios check over
them all. Just check for 200s. Warning and Critical are either
percentages of the total, or a regular numeric thresholds.

The output contains the hostname of any non-200 reporting hosts (see -silence).

Skip input lines that are commented out with shell style comments
like /^#/.

Do Head requests since we don't care about the content. Make this
optional some day.

The -path is appended to the hostnames to make full URLs for the checks.

If the -urls option is specified, then the input is assumed a complete URL, like http://$hostname:$port/$path.

Examples:

./someCommand | ./check_http_bulk -w 1 -c 2 -path '/api/aliveness-test/%2F/' -port 15672 -file - -auth zup:nuch

./check_http_bulk -urls -file urls.txt

-auth="": Do basic auth with this username:passwd - ignored if urls is specified - make this use .netrc instead
-c=20: critical level - number of non-200s or percentage of non-200s (default is numeric not percentage)
-file="": input data source: a filename or '-' for STDIN.
-name="": a name to be included in the check output to distinguish the check output
-path="": optional path to append to the input lines including the leading slash - these will not be urlencoded. This is ignored is the urls option is given.
-pct=false: interpret warming and critical levels are percentages
-port=80: optional port for the http request - ignored if urls is specified
-silence=false: don't make a huge list of all failing checks
-t=2: timeout in seconds - don't wait. Do Head requests and don't wait.
-urls=false: Assume the input data is full urls - its normally a list of hostnames
-v=false: verbose output
-w=10: warning level - number of non-200s or percentage of non-200s (default is numeric not percentage)
-workers=1: how many workers to do the requests