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HTTP Get Request on external website

I need to test the availability of an external webpage on a server that I do not have rights to and is not in my domain so APM is out. I have APM and know how to use it however it will not work in this case. We currently use servers alive to do an HTTP Get on a webpage to test the availability of the service on the external apache webserver. Is there any way to do this through NPM?

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byrona

Isn't HTTP Get pretty much what APM is going to do if you configure it to monitor the URL on an External Node? That is the only way I can think of to do this.

I am unaware of any way to accomplish this with NPM.

jeff.stewart

This is from the APM Admin Guide.

Monitoring External Nodes
To monitor services and applications on a server you do not directly manage, add the server to the Orion database as an external node. External nodes skip all network performance data collection and polling tasks, but allow you to assign applications to them..
For example, you could add www.google.com as an external node, and then assign several HTTP monitors to monitor Google search results.

bshopp

Not through NPM, you can add a node as external and we can ping it, but that is it with NPM. APM would be the route to go.

pvaldes

Hi,

Do you have the guide to adding external websites monitoring using APM 4?

Thanks

Nandish

For external website monitoring I would suggest to look in for SEUM tool.(This should work perfectly according to your needs)

Here is a link for more information.

http://www.solarwinds.com/products/seum/application-monitoring-software.aspx

Here is a link for documentation guide.

http://www.solarwinds.com/documentation/seum/seumDoc.aspx

bshopp

Also, I would recommend placing a post over in the APM section of the forum regarding HTTP form monitor.

m.shagerdi

I have the same problem but not for monitoring, I want to make SMS panel through custom HTML but I have a problem with GET request..

Is there any way to promote this permission?