Monitoring URLS for Availability
You can configure OpManager to monitor your Web sites. Many business
enterprises require continuous monitoring of their Web sites, as the
failure of these sites might have an impact on the business.
You can monitor global URLs, such as www.yahoo.com and
www.adventnet.com or URLs in a server, such as
http://192.168.4.11/index.html, http://web and so on.
You can perform a content match on these URLs and confirm their
availability. Further, for pages that require a form submit, such as
user name and password, you can provide these details and verify the
availability of the next page.
Note: If a proxy server is configured in your
network, make sure to provide its details in the Proxy Server Settings
page of OpManager. Refer to Configuring
Proxy Server Settings for steps to do this. This is required for
monitoring any URL in a proxy-enabled LAN.
To configure a global URL monitor, follow the steps given below:
- Under the Admin tab, click URL Monitors.
In this page you can add, edit, and delete the URL monitors.
- To add a URL monitor, click Add URL.
- Enter a name to the URL monitor in the URL Monitor name
field.
- Type the URL address to be monitored.
- Type the Monitoring Interval and the value of Timeout
in the respective fields.
- Enter the Email ID in the Send Alert to field
to be notified when this URL goes down.
- Enter the number of times the URL can go down consecutively
before raising an alert.
- Type the string to be compared with the contents of the monitored
Web page.
- Select between Get and Post,
the methods for any HTTP/HTTPS-based URLs. This is required because
certain URLs cannot be accessed using a Get request.
- Type the request parameters and their values in the form
<parameter name>=<value>, if any, to know the actual
availability of the URL. Note that you can enter only one parameter in
a line.
- Configure the user name and password for authorization. This will
be required in the pages where you need to log-on and test the
availability of the host.
- Click Check Now to check the availability of
the URL based on the given details. You can verify the correctness of
the given details using this instant check.
- Click OK to add the URL monitor.
Viewing URL Response Time and Availability
You can get the details about the URL response time and availability
in the URL snapshot page.
To view the URL snapshot, click the URL link in the Home page or
Maps tab. Then click the URL whose snapshot you want to view.
Click the Availability chart to view the availability history and
the URL downtime/uptime chart.
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