How to Monitor a Sustained connection to a Website in SAM

We've been having an issue where a user, if they have a particular configuration, will login and navigate to a certain screen and then they will be logged out.

I've tried to use the HTTP Form Login to go to that page which works, but the problem is not that they can't access the page. They access it very briefly and then are kicked out. We're trying to monitor when that happens. Is there anyway to monitor a sustained connection to a page behind a login, or will this have to be done through PowerShell?

Let me know if I need to provide more information,

Thanks.

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mesverrum

Nothing built in would maintain a sustained connection, the polling engines generally want to test for something immediate then kill their connection and move on to the next thing we need them to poll. Do you own the web server? Are there any records in the web logs recording the start and end of user sessions?

celesteflan

Yeah, that's what I figured, and that makes sense.

What about going to two separate pages? It would also happen if they logged in to the specific page and then tried to navigate elsewhere--they would be kicked out.

It is, but there's nothing discernible in the logs, when it gets hung, there's a range of 400/500 errors but none of them are consistent so it's not as easy to alert on them definitively.

frak

I am thinking a powershell (run by task manager) and then check the results of that indirectly or directly from SW.

Though I supposed you could do a SAM powershell monitor with a LONG timeout value - would be a bit yuk for the poller but a single script could be run that way. Just make sure the poll frequency is not short enough that it is in theory trying to run polls over the top of each other. (ie poll every 3 minutes and the powershell runs for 10)