Monitoring web page availability

nemko

Hi all,

I need to monitor web page availability. And this page is only accessed from a specific server. So I can't use http or https monitor. And I have decided to use Powershell monitor. But the problem is, this page uses authentication. So my scripts don't work correctly. Please share any advice.

Thank you in advice!

$HTTP_Request = [System.Net.WebRequest]::Create('http://SomePage.asmx')

$HTTP_Response = $HTTP_Request.GetResponse()

$HTTP_Status = [int]$HTTP_Response.StatusCode

If ($HTTP_Status -eq 401) {

    Write-Host "statistic: 1"

}

Else {

    Write-Host "statistic: 0"

}

#

$HTTP_Response.Close()

jorich

Since you need the web traffic to initiate from the remote "specific" server, you're going to end up going around your elbow one way or another.

You might

• Schedule and execute script on Specific server, capture output if error occurs
  • Write a powershell script similar to example you have above to access the website, place it on the Specific server
  • Set up a Windows Scheduled Task on the Specific server to execute the script under an account that can access the website, perhaps every 5 or 10 minutes
  • Write out to the Windows Event log from the powershell script if it returns an error accessing the site
  • Set up a Windows Event Log monitor on your SAM server to watch for the Site test failure error the powershell script will log to the Specific server's Windows Event Log
  • Enable the Windows Scheduled Tasks monitor in SAM server to watch the scheduled task on Specific server to ensure it runs properly
• Try to execute your http access script remotely from your SAM server using chad.every​ 's method (much more elegant, but more steps to set up as well...)
  • Execute remote process through WMI and Powershell