In versions of Nagios::Plugin::OverHTTP previous to 0.06 the only way to set a timeout on the plugin was to initiate your own LWP::UserAgent and set the timeout on it and pass that to Nagios::Plugin::OverHTTP like: use LWP::UserAgent; use Nagios::Plugin::OverHTTP; my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(timeout => 20); my $plugin = Nagios::Plugin::OverHTTP->new(useragent => $ua);use LWP::UserAgent; use Nagios::Plugin::OverHTTP; […]
Yesterday I finished up some more features to Plugin::Nagios::OverHTTP. Before the only parameter that could be passed was url. Now this parameter can still be passed, but you may also pass other individual parameters, including hostname, path, and ssl. This helps improve the check_over_http utility which would be used in the Nagios checking. Typically the […]
This post is a nice how to about making a bootable USB flash drive to install Windows Vista or Windows 7 from. Unless you are using a super fast flash drive, it won’t be much faster than a DVD, but the plus of this method is being able to not use a DVD and to […]
Yesterday I published my first full module to CPAN: Nagios::Plugin::OverHTTP. The module is based on Moose and includes the Nagios plugin in the distribution in bin/check_over_http. I will be improving this module, but wanted to push it out to CPAN as soon as it was at least usable. The module is avaiable in my Github […]