A nagios plugin to check Tomcat Apps

I wrote a simple nagios plugin to check the status of tomcat webapps.
Instead of looking pages like this one…
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I’d better to use some script like this.
To put the plugin in the nagios environment, add these lines

define command{
command_name check_tomcat_app
command_line /bin/bash /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_tomcat_app $ARG1$ $ARG2$ $ARG3$
}

to the commands.cfg file definitions.Then add some line like theese

define service{
use generic-service
host_name myhostname
service_description Examples Web Service
is_volatile 0
check_period 24×7
max_check_attempts 3
normal_check_interval 15
retry_check_interval 1
contact_groups admins
notification_interval 240
notification_period 24×7
notification_options c,r
check_command check_tomcat_app!”http://tomcatserver.my.lan:8080/manager/html/list”!Examples!admin:passw
}

into the services.cfg file.
Off corse username and password has to be set up in tomcat-users.xml file

$ cat /usr/local/apache-tomcat/conf/tomcat-users.xml
<?xml version=’1.0′ encoding=’utf-8′?>
<tomcat-users>
<role rolename=”manager”/>
<role rolename=”admin-gui”/>
<role rolename=”manager-gui”/>
<role rolename=”manager-status”/>
<user username=”admin” password=”passw” roles=”manager,manager-gui,manager-status,admin-gui”/>
</tomcat-users>

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