Shibboleth Developers

[Peter Schober <>]

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 [2009-07-31 11:57]:
> I read in all forum , that monitoring shibd 1.3 is not easy.

This is a question for the -users list, even if the words "source code"
are part of your email. And whatever this "forum" (or these fora) might be.

> If I'd like use Nagios , I could see only if the daemon is alive or not.
> Or sometimes the daemon is active but not really working.
> I could create or use  program to see shibd's logs but this seems not very 
> effective.
> Is there already a way to communicate directly with the demon (by
> Http or/and ask for Status).

Well, the Shib 2.x SP (which you should be using anyway) has a few
additional handlers, some find the Status handler useful for this.
Others just do a real test by accessing a resource protected by the SP
(i.e. testing complete WebSSO cycles).

> Possibly modify the source code (a little)  to do this ?

Certainly not with Shib 1.3.
-peter