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External website monitoring

profzoom1 over 14 years ago

I am a little confused on the website monitoring in APM 3.0 as to how to monitor a website URL or login on a site that is not hosted by my company or that does not have a node in Solarwinds and if this is even possible.

I am trying to monitor and use the user experience to login to our parent company website which some of our employees use and need and we have to monitor so that we know if there are issues with the sites our users are trying to get too.

I was trying to use the Thwaxk.com template and also go through http://www.solarwinds.com/NetPerfMon/SolarWinds/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm#href=OrionAPMPHComponentTypesHttp.htm

and find any reference to external sites and have not found one.

We are trying to get away from a program called hostmonitor which does test to external sites without having to specify a local node just the URL and it test the availability of that site and you can login with that program as well to external websites that we do not host to test user ability to login.

How can I do this with APM?

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0 RogerWong over 14 years ago

profzoom1,
You can create an external node and assign your HTTP monitoring template to it.
Or, you can take advantage of the fact that you can type any IP address for the URL field in the HTTP monitor. It doesn't have to monitor the node you assign it to. So you can make an app that has a bunch of monitors all pointing to different websites.
For more information, see:
Monitoring External Nodes
and
HTTP Monitor
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0 RogerWong over 14 years ago

profzoom1,
You can create an external node and assign your HTTP monitoring template to it.
Or, you can take advantage of the fact that you can type any IP address for the URL field in the HTTP monitor. It doesn't have to monitor the node you assign it to. So you can make an app that has a bunch of monitors all pointing to different websites.
For more information, see:
Monitoring External Nodes
and
HTTP Monitor
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0 profzoom1 over 14 years ago in reply to RogerWong

Thanks, I didn't see that external site deal when reading through.
Now is there a way to get the external site from showing up in Orion so that I am not asked about what these Unknowns are?

Still having problems with the login to a website monitor as well.
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0 profzoom1 over 14 years ago in reply to RogerWong

How do you test this

So you can make an app that has a bunch of monitors all pointing to different websites.
Don't you need to set this to a node?
Where would you view this if not set to a node, I am confused?
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