Automated Shib login for monitoring

[Peter Schober]

* Wessel, Keith <kwessel at illinois.edu> [2015-02-12 21:58]:
> 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'd also consider using ECP for the monitoring, after all your user
agent is not a common web browser. While that does not traverse the
exact same path a web browser would I would assume it'd still catch
the IDP's context not running or other IDP blergs.
-peter