[Nagiosplug-help] Plugin to check websites locked with SSL Client Certificates

[Andreas Ericsson]

Jeremy Utley wrote:
> Does anyone know of a Nagios plugin that will check https web sites
> that are secured with client certificates as an authentication
> mechanism?  Right now we're just using check_tcp to see if the port is
> open, but if apache has flaked out and stopped serving, but hasn't
> crashed, then that creates a false positive.  I checked
> nagios-exchange, and didn't find anything, nor does it look like the
> standard check_http plugin in nagios-plugins has the ability to
> specify a client cert to use in the connection.
> 

You're right. check_http doesn't support using a client certificate. I don't
think it'd be a great chore adding that though, and I'm sure a patch that
does it in a clean and good way would be welcome.

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