Is there really no 'HTTPS' plug-in bundled in Hyperic?

[kaginken]

I would think most website's requiring monitoring are secure, requiring certificates and passphrases. I'm evaluating methods to integrate our current methods (simple curl or wget bash scripts) into Hyperic, and it appears my only options are:

1) HTTP Plugin - while I do see a SSL checkbox, nowhere is there place to point it to my cert/key/trust files. I read somewhere there's a 'certificate store', but cannot find any information on that or a way to import my certs into it. So far, this option is not looking too promising.

2) Scripts Plugin - as I have no working knowledge of XML, I've looked around for a plugin I could use, to no avail.

There's got to be somebody monitoring a secure website using Hyperic - no point in my having to reinvent something.

Here's some specifics - the agent is running on AIX 6.1. This machine needs to monitor our connection to an external secure website, via a proxy.

[excowboy]

> I would think most website's requiring monitoring are
> secure, requiring certificates and passphrases. I'm
> evaluating methods to integrate our current methods
> (simple curl or wget bash scripts) into Hyperic, and
> it appears my only options are:
>
> 1) HTTP Plugin - while I do see a SSL checkbox,
> nowhere is there place to point it to my
> cert/key/trust files. I read somewhere there's a
> 'certificate store', but cannot find any information
> on that or a way to import my certs into it. So far,
> this option is not looking too promising.

At this point certificate store is the Java certificate store of your HQ Agent JRE.
Please check Java documentation how to import certificates.
>
> 2) Scripts Plugin - as I have no working knowledge of
> XML, I've looked around for a plugin I could use, to
> no avail.

You do not have to write a single line XML code in order to use curl or wget.
Just write a simple bash script containing your command and deploy a Script service manually.
If you configure your service, set prefix to /bin/bash and let the path point to your script.

>
> There's got to be somebody monitoring a secure
> website using Hyperic - no point in my having to
> reinvent something.
>
> Here's some specifics - the agent is running on AIX
> 6.1. This machine needs to monitor our connection to
> an external secure website, via a proxy.

Cheers,
Mirko