[Nagiosplug-help] check-http with client certificate authorization

[Subhendu Ghosh]

On Thu, 17 Apr 2003, Heckert, Torsten wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am currently evaluating to monitor some of our webservers using
> nagios. Some of them offer SingleSignOn by accepting clientside
> certificates. It is also possible to log on using basic authentication.
> 
> When I access these servers check_http seems to crash:
> 
> [server accepting SSO]
> > ./check_http -H sapneth1.wdf.sap.corp -S -v -a xxxxx:yyyyy
> SSL seeding: OK
> Error in recv()
> 
> [same server using http]
> > ./check_http -H sapneth1.wdf.sap.corp -p 1080 -a xxxxx:yyyyy
> HTTP ok: HTTP/1.1 200 OK -   7.382 second response time |time=  7.382
> 
> [server without SSO using https]
> > ./check_http -H www001.sap-ag.de -S
> HTTP ok: HTTP/1.1 200 OK -   0.727 second response time |time=  0.727
> 
> Version: check_http (nagios-plugins 1.3.0) 1.24
> 
> Is there a possibibilty for a workaround or a different plugin that may solve this issue?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Torsten
> 
> 

There was a post earlier today from Fabian Pehla regards check_http plugin 
with client cert support.

the https client behaves differently with the client sert is involved - 
and the current code doe not catch that exepction.

Try Fabian's code.  We will be looking at integrating the client cert 
piece into the main check_http.

-- 

-sg