Automated Shib login for monitoring

[Wessel, Keith]

You read my mind, Peter. After I finish evaluating all the great solutions I was sent last week, I was planning on suggesting the same thing. Some great stuff out there, and it certainly deserves a page on the Wiki.

Keith


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From: users-bounces at shibboleth.net [mailto:users-bounces at shibboleth.net] On Behalf Of Peter Schober
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 9:08 AM
To: users at shibboleth.net
Subject: Re: Automated Shib login for monitoring

* 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(https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__casperjs.org-29-2Bphantoms&d=AwICAg&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=Y0zzCBieYYCPPvkHk7LMZeVNTs2T9CLlF6pNSduPt_k&m=j-UNM8PFRDvWRDNNqpiq20KEE8YTg7m9dr1YqHjc7aA&s=nqBp0LXrZUOzP8r_vzlFKr2UlnrSBxlv6ZM76vO159I&e=  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
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