i set up alarms on their output. for instance, i would run a "wget" on a url and then search for certain strings within the output given by the "wget".
the problem is, i cant get the entire output or response of my wget/curl command to show up correctly in the Nagios GUI.
this is because there are a variety of characters that confuses the GUI. these characters include but aren't limited to: /\[]^& etc. i guess the term for them is "metacharacters".
how can I force it so that ALL ouput produced by a wget or curl is actually shown, down to the very last character?
i.e. for example, the below is the most basic example i can show as to what i want:
I would like to be able to show everything that is outputted by the wget, in the format that it was outputted.
We are trying to invoke a https service from our unix script using curl command. The service is not getting invoked because it is SSL configured. Bypassing certification (using curl –k) does not work.
curl -k https://site
curl -k -x IP:Port https://site
curl -k -x IP:443 https://id:pwd@site
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I'm trying to write a script to download RedHat's errata digest.
It comes in a txt.gz format, and i can get it easily with firefox.
HOWEVER: output is VERY strange when donwloading it in a script. It seems I'm getting a file of the same size - but partially text and partly binary! It... (5 Replies)
Hello,
I am wondering does anyone know of a method using curl/wget or other where by I could specify the IP address of the server I wish to query for a website.
Something similar to editing /etc/hosts but that can be done directly from the command line. I have looked through the man pages... (4 Replies)
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I need a Shell script that will download a zip file every second from a http server but i can't use neither curl nor wget.
Can anyone will help me go about this task ???
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My script needs to crawl the data from a third party site. Currently it is written in wget. The third party site is of shared interface with different IP addresses.
My wget works with all the IP address but not with one. Whereas the curl is able to hit that IP address and comes out... (2 Replies)
Experts,
I login to a 3rd party and pull some valuable information with my credentials. I pass my credentials via --post-data in wget.
Now my Account is locked. I want my wget to alert that the Account is locked. How can i achieve this.
My idea is, get the Source page html from the... (2 Replies)
Hello,
What I am trying to do is to get html data of a website automatically.
Firstly I decided to do it manually and via terminal I entered below code:
$ wget http://www.***.*** -q -O code.html
Unfortunately code.html file was empty.
When I enter below code it gave Error 303-304
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i'm using this command to post data to a remote host:
wget --post-data="My Data" http://<my-ip>:80 -O /dev/null -q
and
curl --data "My Data" http://<my-ip>:80
however, when i run the above, i see the following in my access log on the remote host:
Wget:
10.10.10.10 - - "POST /... (1 Reply)