Automated Shib login for monitoring

[Kevin Foote]

> On Feb 13, 2015, at 7:38 AM, Roland Hedberg <roland.hedberg at umu.se> wrote:
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>> 12 feb 2015 kl. 22:18 skrev Tom Scavo <trscavo at gmail.com>:
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>> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Wessel, Keith <kwessel at illinois.edu> wrote:
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>>> 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.

Keith, 
Here is another solution. There is no reason to reinvent the wheel here for sure. 

<https://github.com/UWIT-IAM/webisoget>

You can never go wrong with fox code :-)

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thanks
 kevin.foote