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HTTP Form Login Problems

Greetings!

We have been using a modified version of the HttpLogin.vbs script for quite a while now. Initial setup was a bit difficult, but once we got it settled, everything appeared to work just fine.

Recently we rebuilt our monitoring server (Server 2008 32 bit), and we installed Orion v10 and APM 3.5. We are using the same database, and all of the same monitors. But now we're experiencing trouble with the form login monitor.

Initially I felt the problems were related to IE8's features, so I made the following changes to IE8:

Security - added to trusted sites

Privacy - disable popup blocker

inprivate - do not collect data

Programs - disabled add ons

Advanced - disabled third party browser extensions

disable auto recover of tabs

disable reload in compatability mode

Installed all self signed web certificates on Solarwinds Server

Lo and behold, it started to work. Great! Until I logged out of the server. Then I started to get errors about not being able to create an Internet Explorer application object.

So my problem now is this: the monitor works fine as long as I am logged in. I am assuming that once I log out, there isn't a GUI session to associate with the monitor, so it can't create the IE object.

Anyone else run into this type of problem?

And I cannot use the HTTP Form Login monitor, because this third part portal site uses one form for the username and another for the password, so I need to specifiy two form names, not just one.

Any thoughts? I don't want to have to leave the user logged in at the console, and this monitor has worked before, so maybe I am missing something...

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jiri.tomek

Hello,
what version of IE have you been using before? I'm afraid that you won't be able to run IE without user logged to console because current IE needs UI thread to run.

You can try to rewrite your script to work directly with HTTP request and response instead of full IE. You could directly send HTTP request with username and password and parse received response to see if you were logged in.

mlear01

Honestly, I'm not sure which version of IE we used prior to the rebuild. However, I'm curious why this would have worked before... is there something different between Server 2003 and 2008 causing this?

The script is a slightly modified version of the HttpLogin.vbs script provided with Orion NPM (I added support for a second form for the password), so I'm curious if this was a known issue with that script.

mvjames

Does the VBS script you are using use a InternetExplorer object or a WinHTTP object to do its queries?