Automated Shib login for monitoring

[Tom Scavo]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Peter Schober
<peter.schober at univie.ac.at> wrote:
> * 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?

+1

Tom