Wiould it be at all possible to pull from the SOAP Responce Envelope a field, I.E. <statusMsg>Error: 14587</statusMsg>, and have that displayed somewhere in the Component monitor details page within Solarwinds?
The SOAP monitor is actually pretty limited. It can only check is the API is up/down and the response time it took for the request. If you're wanting to pull info from a SOAP API and include details of the request in the component it would have to be a custom script monitor. The Powershell script component monitor tends to work the best for Orion in my opinion, but other scripting languages could be used.
Much appreciated, Powershell was an original option, I've not had to much experience with it. I'll give it shot.
Cool. I also have this article i wrote on scripting in SAM. SAM Script Component Monitors - Everything you need to know
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