[gentoo-user] [OT] Checking for a webcam with Nagios

[Mick]

Hi All,

This is a Nagios M/L question, but I thought that some of you may have arrived 
at a best practice solution for this sort of problem, which is applicable to 
monitoring webpages/sites that require authentication.

I want to monitor that a webcam is up & functioning.  When I use the 
check_http Nagios command the webcam returns a request for passwd 
authentication.  This is because the webcam GUI requires passwd 
authentication.  Nagios registers a "HTTP WARNING: HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized" 
message and of courses generates an alert.

How would you recommend I monitor this webcam with Nagios?
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Regards,
Mick