Automated Shib login for monitoring

[Peter Schober]

* Jarno Huuskonen <jarno.huuskonen at uef.fi> [2015-02-19 12:33]:
> > 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.
> 
> With casperjs(http://casperjs.org)+phantoms you can get pretty close to
> "normal" browser.
> 
> We've shibboleth-sp installed on our nagios host and casperjs script that
> logins to nagios(sp) shibboleth protected page and checks that the page
> shows testuser attributes etc.

Since monitoring is a somewhat frequently discussed issue would you
like to contribute some examples to the Shibboleth wiki?
-peter