Monitor an external website

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

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

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

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

SAM's HTTP/HTTPS User Experience Monitors don't support JavaScript. As such, you would need to define the full/absolute URL you wish to monitor as javascript redirects will not be respected. If the website or web application you are trying to monitor is reliant upon JavaScript to verify it's fully functioning, then I recommend you look at SolarWinds (WPM) Web Performance Monitor. WPM supports full JavaScript, Java, Flash, Silverlight, etc.

I got the full url, but an getting the follwoing error.

The remote server returned an error: (406) Not Acceptable.

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

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:

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

Also, this website isn't hosted onsite.