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Monitor an external website

amellott

Is there anyway to monitor an external website by it FQDN & verify its up by checking for a certain string?

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slaj

Hi amellot,

you are probably looking for SAM/HTTP monitor and its setting 'Search String'. You can find additional information in http://www.solarwinds.com/documentation/apm/docs/SAMAdminGuide.pdf on the page 827.

Petr Schmeister

amellott

I’m getting a java error. Possibly because of the redirect?

slaj

Sorry, it is hard to say without additional information. Have you tried 'Follow redirect' setting?

amellott

I believe that’s when I got the java error, during the redirect.

amellott

Does anyone have an example of how the http monitor should be configured?

slaj

Hi amellott,

I have just added a http monitor into an application and changed two properties: 'url' and 'search string' (see in the attachment). It works fine for me.

If you have troubles to get it working, you can enable debug logging for that application (on the edit application page) and check logs files (C:\ProgramData\Solarwinds\Logs\APM\ApplicationLogs\AppIdXX\). There could be written down additional information. It should look like:

amellott

I don't have the GET option on Host Request. Does that matter?

amellott

Also, this website isn't hosted onsite.

aLTeReGo

The fact that you have no "GET" option does not matter. The default behavior of the HTTP/HTTP User Experience Monitors is always "GET". Petr is simply giving you an unintended preview of some of the new functionality the SAM team is currently working on.

amellott

Found it. Here's a screen shot of log. There's no proxy server.

aLTeReGo

Are you sure the site you are trying to monitor is http://ww.org ?

Perhaps you're missing an extra "w"?

amellott

I just changed the actual website name since this was a public forum.

lukas.belza

Hello,

Please try to change User Agent setting. For example:

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/6.0)

This is value from Internet Explorer 10.

Lukas Belza (SolarWinds development)

slaj

Http error 406 happens when the server cannot respond with the accept-header specified in the request. I would suggest to investigate the problem by looking at the Accept headers generated by the client system and the data stream returned by the Web server.

amellott

User Agent in the Component Monitor was set to "Orion Poller" and it resolve the problem.