HTTP component with URL sequences (steps, i.e. 1...2...3...)

SiteScope has a "URL Sequence" function we would like to duplicate in SolarWinds. The provided HTTP, HTTPS and HTTP Form Login Monitors do not have an option to have ordered steps. For example, we need to go to a site and login, THEN conduct a search producing results AND THEN logout successfully. In SiteScope those two extra steps were just coded into URLs like this:

https://website.com/customerSearch.jsp?action=search&lastName=xxxxxxx

https://website.com/?logout=logout

I could make separate components for each but I don't believe that would guarantee they would occur in the correct order. It must follow the order: goto site, log in, search, log out.

Does anyone know a feasible way of accomplishing this? Can we manipulate components?

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hockeychic29

It's not benefit, it's requirement. The user ID must log out after each session or the ID will lock up. If one instance logs in and does a search and doesn't log out and then another instance logs in and logs out then it will eventually lock up the user ID until a cache bounce on the UNIX server.

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byrona

What additional benefit do you get from running the checks in a particular sequence versus checking them individually as components in an application monitor?

cgregors

I'm pretty sure there are session cookies preserved between the requests.

I have dealt with a similar problem using the following unix script:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
$t1=time;
system ('/usr/bin/wget -q --keep-session-cookies --save-cookies cookies.txt --post-data="username=user&password=passwd" -O fred example.com/.../login.jsp');
system ('/usr/bin/wget -q -O fred --load-cookies cookies.txt -p example.com/.../main.jsp');
unlink 'fred';
unlink 'cookies.txt';
printf "statistic: %.2f\n",time-$t1;

This uses 2 wget statements and relies on the cookies being saved in a file called 'fred' between the wgets.

hockeychic29