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How does HTTPS Monitor Work

4ahmadali over 5 years ago

Hi All,

When we create an HTTPS monitor to check a URL. Please inform the bellow

The availability of URL is checked at Orion Poller or at assigned node

To access the URL, the DNS resolution occurs at Orion Server or at assigned node

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mesverrum over 5 years ago in reply to 4ahmadali +1

You can choose to assign it on the node or not, but assigning it to the node that hosts that website makes it a bit easier to know that if this website is down then thats the node where you need to fix…

0 mesverrum over 5 years ago

For an Http/s monitor all testing happens at the Orion server.
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0 adatole over 5 years ago

We have two lab episodes on component monitors:
SAM TEMPLATE SHOWDOWN
SAM Template Rematch
Plus a Lab Bits on it:
SolarWinds Lab Bits: Configuring the HTTP Form Component in SAM - YouTube
SolarWinds Lab Bits: Configuring the HTTPS Component in SAM - YouTube
SolarWinds Lab Bits: Configuring the SAM Web Link Component - YouTube
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0 4ahmadali over 5 years ago in reply to mesverrum

If the availability check of https link occurs at Orion Server then what is the purpose of assigning the component monitor to a node?
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0 4ahmadali over 5 years ago in reply to adatole

Hi Leon,
I have gone through the lab videos you have provided but they did not contain answer to my question.
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0 mesverrum over 5 years ago in reply to 4ahmadali

You can choose to assign it on the node or not, but assigning it to the node that hosts that website makes it a bit easier to know that if this website is down then thats the node where you need to fix the problem. When you assign the monitor it also defaults to trying to connect to that node's IP on 443, but you could over ride that and tell any monitor on any node to check any website if you want, but then it might get a little confusing.
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0 rangerzone over 4 years ago

This may be wildly late from the original post, however, It doing netstats on the node and the orion server, but mesverrum is correct, the poller is the Orion Node not the Agent that the component monitor is assigned to. This is unfortunate because I was hoping to use one template to monitor from multiple nodes.
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0 rangerzone over 4 years ago in reply to rangerzone

I spoke too soon, look like you can set agentless or agent monitored.
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