Automated Shib login for monitoring

[Roland Hedberg]

> 12 feb 2015 kl. 22:18 skrev Tom Scavo <trscavo at gmail.com>:
> 
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Wessel, Keith <kwessel at illinois.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> I've been tasked with collecting performance and availability numbers for our IDP nodes which gave me reason to do something I've been wanting to do for a while: write a better monitor for Shib than just using the status URL.
>> 
>> I started my work by writing a Perl script that, using LWP, hits an SP's login URL and goes through the IDP login process. It's not pretty, but it almost works.
> 
> I have a bash script that does pretty much the same thing. Roland
> Hedberg has some tools as well. You should really take a look at
> Roland’s stuff if you haven't already.

My stuff :-) can be found here: https://github.com/its-dirg/idp_monitor

It built so it can be used together with a Nagios monitoring system if you happen to have one.

I’m happy to take questions. Preferably directly to me since I don’t regularly attend this group.

- Roland

"It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each others’ folly - that is the first law of nature.” - Voltaire





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