Werk #15520: check_httpv2: Added new options to HTTP monitoring

Component Checks & agents
Title check_httpv2: Added new options to HTTP monitoring
Date Dec 16, 2024
Level Trivial Change
Class New Feature
Compatibility Compatible - no manual interaction needed
Checkmk versions & editions
2.4.0b1 Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk Cloud (CCE), Checkmk MSP (CME)

The following new options are now available:

  • Connect to an explicit server instead of resolving the host name provided in the url. By default the host name provided in the URL will be used to establish the connection to a web server. It's now possible to connect optionally to an explicit (physical) server to check for the provided URL.
  • Ignore certificates. In some scenarios a user needs to connect to a web endpoint that provides a certificate not matching the host of the URL, is self-signed or has a non-trusted root certificate in it's chain. Altough we recommend to solve these problems by solving the underlying problems, we acknowledge that a user may want to have individual services for both: web endpoint and it's certificate.
  • Enforce IPv4 or IPv6 as protocol to use for the check. This option has been available on command line and is now also available in the rule set of the Checkmk UI.

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