From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IUMSQ-000706-Ks for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 09 Sep 2007 13:04:11 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l89CsdCp022916; Sun, 9 Sep 2007 12:54:39 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.172]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l89Cl2ZU012955 for ; Sun, 9 Sep 2007 12:47:03 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id j3so285413ugf for ; Sun, 09 Sep 2007 05:47:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=Q9FLnxTERDcyirKRZ0FFQaMMs/pANEToXiEvrQITuvE=; b=ZJqnHbDwBP+E59Sdgx+3AmIpgFCMw/2lrKumT43jZCRD0ld/HRoW6eeWJFi0qvmJhOiDqZBmsRKl5UIc8Z93hmjYcVhyp5FESZ9SoNCk2fJvHZjnwgq6qLoBgZBZLx1WahkuCWgjwP2kOYCRODfOmtcxKv2UInB7TljutqvJkt8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=Ig3UWrmLoTy/03DfJOe2iNO3QDU1nOF00fpIjUnxymwD5fUrptSmEEOKE9XREaz29zbjHGBrrcYMk95PcuJhgFkp0R2i+vCjW5tbu/VNadUvOEtLVCcEYCpW/E1W+NXoMkxJ0XmkKrCZFi9vVmd0SXN7k2xp+47Kpl+iR9f5RAk= Received: by 10.67.19.11 with SMTP id w11mr3531864ugi.1189342022556; Sun, 09 Sep 2007 05:47:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lappy.study ( [213.162.120.196]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id m1sm7493130uge.2007.09.09.05.47.01 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 09 Sep 2007 05:47:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Checking for a webcam with Nagios Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2007 13:46:12 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200709091252.33575.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <46E3E1ED.2090100@buanzo.com.ar> In-Reply-To: <46E3E1ED.2090100@buanzo.com.ar> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1340104.7x09mFslRS"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200709091346.22633.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 9b7259c8-9254-4ff9-a5ba-f9cb0b78a4f7 X-Archives-Hash: 97d95f3abb5b0b5bf3fa62e1da013a8c --nextPart1340104.7x09mFslRS Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday 09 September 2007, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: > Mick wrote: > > I want to monitor that a webcam is up & functioning. When I use the > > check_http Nagios command the webcam returns a request for passwd > > authentication. This is because the webcam GUI requires passwd > > authentication. Nagios registers a "HTTP WARNING: HTTP/1.0 401 > > Unauthorized" message and of courses generates an alert. > > > > How would you recommend I monitor this webcam with Nagios? > > Can't you add the username and password to the HTTP url? > > Like http://username:password@ip.of.webcam/whatever/path Thanks Arturo, Yes I can, but I thought that exposing authentication details in plain text= =20 config files is not particularly safe. Isn't there another way? =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart1340104.7x09mFslRS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBG4+sV5Fp0QerLYPcRAqGMAKC7U/uR64J14p15kYRUC0MWS/LK7wCfeNcT H6Fn/6+dafsVvhwtRWlZNWs= =5Q6r -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1340104.7x09mFslRS-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list