ManageEngine® Applications Manager Chapter 5.6 Web Server / Services |
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Applications Manager supports monitoring of the following Web Services to check their status:
To create an Apache Monitor, follow the steps given below: Refer to the Prerequisites that are needed for Apache monitoring.
Click on New Monitor link. Choose Apache Server.
Enter the IP Address or hostname of the host in which the Monitor is running.
Enter the SubNetMask of the network.
Provide the port number in which the monitor is running.
Choose SSL option, if SSL is enabled in Apache Server.
Enter the polling interval time in minutes.
Enter the Apache User Name and Password if the Apache Server is authenticated.
Modify the Apache Server Status URL if required. The default Server Status URL through which the data transfer details, access details, etc., are collected is http://<host-name:portNumber>server-status?auto. You can now modify the server status URL using this option, if the server status URL is different.
Choose the Monitor Group from the combo box with which you want to associate Apache Monitor (optional).
Click Add Monitor(s). This discovers the Apache from the network and starts monitoring them.
To create an IIS Monitor, follow the steps given below:
Click on New Monitor link. Choose IIS Server.
Enter the IP Address or hostname of the host in which the Monitor is running.
Enter the SubNetMask of the network.
Provide the port number in which the monitor is running.
Choose SSL option, if SSL is enabled in IIS Server.
Enter the polling interval time in minutes.
Choose the Monitor Group from the combo box with which you want to associate IIS Monitor (optional).
Click Add Monitor(s). This discovers the IIS Server from the network and starts monitoring them.
Real Browser Monitor (RBM) provides live End-User experience measurement. RBM opens up a Microsoft Internet Explorer Browser and monitors a web application just like how a real user sees it. It supports playback from different geographical locations. To know more about RBM and its monitoring capabilities, see Working of Real Browser Monitor.
Note: Real Browser Monitor supports IE browser only.
To create an Real Browser Monitor, follow the steps given below:
Click on New Monitor link. Choose Real Browser Monitor, under Web Server / Services.
Enter the Display Name of the RBM
Select the WebScript, from the available webscripts. To create new webscripts or to modify webscripts, follow the below steps:
Select the Playback Agents. Multiple selection option is also possible.
Set the polling interval time in minutes.
Set the Timeout in minutes. Timeout is the maximum waiting time taken for the Webscript to execute. If the playback in the RBM Agents got struck or was not played back properly, then RBM Agent wait for timeout and then move to the next polling.
Click Add RBM Monitor.
To create a PHP Monitor, follow the steps given below:
Initially, you need to place phpstats.php , the bundled Applications Manager's PHP file in the webserver's document root.
Click on New Monitor link. Select PHP Monitoring.
Enter the IP Address or hostname of the host in which the Monitor is running.
Enter the SubNetMask of the network.
Provide the port number in which the monitor is running.
Choose SSL option, if SSL is enabled in PHP.
Enter the path to be connected. By default, ' /phpstats.php ' is shown. http://hostname:portNo/"path to be connected" will be used for connection
Enter the polling interval time in minutes.
Choose the Monitor Group from the combo box with which you want to associate PHP Monitor (optional).
Click Add Monitor(s). This discovers the PHP Service from the network and starts monitoring them.
To create a Web Server Monitor, follow the steps given below:
Click on New Monitor link. Choose Web Server.
Enter the IP Address or hostname of the host in which the Monitor is running.
Enter the SubNetMask of the network.
Provide the port number in which the monitor is running.
Enter the polling interval time in minutes.
Choose the Monitor Group from the combo box with which you want to associate Web Server Monitor (optional).
Click Add Monitor(s). This discovers the Web server from the network and starts monitoring them.
If you have added Monitors and not associated them with a Monitor Group, you can do this manually anytime. For information on associating a Monitor with a Monitor Group, refer to Associating Monitor with Monitor Groups topic.
To create Web Services Monitor, follow the steps given below:
Note: If you want to access Web Services through Proxy , Kindly go to Admin > Configure Proxy Settings > Check if Proxy is configured, else configure the same. For hosts that don't require Proxy, add them to the No Proxy list.
Click on New Monitor link. Choose Web Services.
Enter the WSDL URL.
Select the checkbox if proxy is required for connection to the WSDL URL.
Enter the polling interval time in minutes.
Enter the Timeout.
Give the User Name and Password, if it is required to invoke the webservice operation.
Choose the Monitor Group from the combo box with which you want to associate Web Services Monitor (optional).
Click Add Monitor(s).
If you have added Monitors and not associated them with a Monitor Group, you can do this manually anytime. For information on associating a Monitor with a Monitor Group, refer to Associating Monitor with Monitor Groups topic.
After creation of Web Services monitor, you can proceed to add the required operations and configure the thresholds and alarms for the same. Kindly refer Web Services Monitor for more details on operations.
See Also
Monitor Information - Web Server / Services | Create Other New Monitors
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