Monitor web sites on server with no ping response?

This may be a pretty silly question, but I can't wrap my hands around it...

I'm using APM 2.5 to monitor, among other things, our web servers. I have a template that I customized, and I am using it on several sites successfully after adding each site into Orion as an ICMP-only node.

The problem I ran into is that several of our sites are hosted with a provider that doesnt allow inbound ping traffic...so those nodes in Orion are showing as down. But I can definitely hit web traffic on the server....but the template will never read good.

So how can I monitor web sites on public web servers that do not respond to pings?

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RogerWong

You can assign HTTP component monitors to nodes that have no relation to component monitor. Piggy back the component monitors onto a node that you know should never go down.

"...you can create an assigned application monitor containing component monitors that check whether several external web servers are reachable. The only server that has to be in the Orion NPM database is the node to which you assign the application monitor template."

http://www.solarwinds.com/netperfmon/SolarWinds/ApplicationPerformanceMonitorAdministratorGuide.6.21.htm

jrich

In theory you could add localhost as a node and never reboot your solarwinds box and then the node would always be green. The problem I'm running into with this though is that I have multiple customers as well and I'd like to have a node that will always be up and also show the customers where their websites are on their front page portal. Right now they have to drill into, sometimes a server that does not host the website to view the status of that website. If I could create a generic node that does not have to rely on an ICMP or SNMP connection so that it will no matter what be green, I could name it Customer Websites for that customer and add all of the HTTP monitors to it. Is this at all possible?

rcahill

I use the internal loopback 127.0.0.1 address as a monitored "reference ICMP" of external sites. Then used the APM http/https: url / port for web monitoring. For the past 3 months it has worked.

What I can not do is get any APM monitors onto an Orion map.

FormerMember

What I can not do is get any APM monitors onto an Orion map.

This is coming in NPM 9.5.