Need help monitoring a Web Service on IIS server

Question

Hi,

I'm new to the AppInsight for IIS (my last job did not have this option) and I need to monitor a specific Web Service on this IIS box and I can not seem to find anything in the Admin or Troubleshooting guides for SAM that specifies how to do so. Example. I can see in in a top 20 process monitor under the IIS instance that several of the services are in that group but I do not know how to view all the Web services (not Windows services!). Example: I see couple of services that I need to alert on, BVA.svc and CRM.svc, but I don't see where to go to see ALL services and then how would I alert on them? Do I need to build a component monitor for these particular services? Kind of lost

I need to confirm I can see them all and then alert of up/down status for them in case they crash. I have submitted a case to SW support but wanted to reach out to thwack community in case you all have any better guidance.

Thanks in Advance, any help appreciated.

tcooperatportauthority.org · Answer

Links are helpful, but not as helpful as spelling out exactly how we can do it here in this thread!  Having to click around and hunt and peck for the answer doesn't really help.  I've spent a number of hours searching on Google and all of the Thwack threads come up empty.  I've gone through some documentation, found the Soap/JSON Example Template, but still can't get anything to work as the documentation for that stinks.

cmazko · Answer

If you're new to AppInsight for IIS, I recommend watching Monitoring Microsoft IIS and IIS Web Server Monitoring Tool: AppInsight for IIS. We also have a Geek Speak article, IIS Web Server Monitoring: Best Practices, that may be helpful.

You can learn about AppInsight for IIS in the SAM 6.6.1 Administrator Guide, available in the SolarWinds Success Center. To set up AppInsight, refer to:

* AppInsight for IIS requirements and permissions
* Configure AppInsight for IIS on nodes
* Manually configure AppInsight for IIS

If you encounter any issues, please check out Troubleshooting AppInsight for IIS issues in SAM in the Success Center.

tcooperatportauthority.org · Answer

Does anyone have an answer other than SAM can do this?  I can't find any documentation exactly how this is done.  I have a number of web services that I'd like to be sure are running.