How to monitor http web pages and splunk the results?

[Hazel]

Hello

I'm looking to set something up that calls a bunch of http webpages that run on some of our boxes that need a username & password and logs a couple of things

• Whether the page is pingable
• Grabs the page content and then i can parse it into Splunk

I'm not really sure where to start with this, I guess it needs some kind of script. I was just wondering if anyone had written anything similar that could help me or has any ideas that could just guide me into where to start with this?

I don't really know much perl or python but I'm getting I'll need something like this to do this?

Thanks
Hazel

[MuS · Accepted solution]

Hi Hazel

I would do this with a script which calls 'wget' or 'lynx -d'
then you get a dump of the webpage, which could be read by splunk or if the page is down (not pingable) your script can error out something which is also read by splunk.

regards