Monitoring URLs for Availability
You can configure OpManager to monitor your Web sites. Many business
enterprises require continuous monitoring of their Web sites, as the
failure of these sites might have an impact on the business.
You can monitor global URLs, such as www.yahoo.com and
www.manageengine.com.com or URLs in a server, such as
http://192.168.4.11/index.html, http://web and so on.
You can perform a content match on these URLs and confirm their
availability. Further, for pages that require a form submit, such as
user name and password, you can provide these details and verify the
availability of the next page.
Note: If a proxy server is configured in your
network, make sure to provide its details in the Proxy Server Settings
page of OpManager. Refer to Configuring
Proxy Server Settings for steps to do this. This is required for
monitoring any URL in a proxy-enabled LAN.
Configuring a global URL monitor
To configure a global URL monitor, follow the steps given below:
- Go to Admin-> URL Monitor -> Add URL.
- Select URL radio button
to configure a URL monitor. This is selected by default.
- Enter a name to the URL monitor in the URL Monitor name
field.
- Type the URL address to be monitored.
- Type the Monitoring Interval and the value of Timeout
in the respective fields.
- Enter the number of times the URL can go down consecutively
before raising an alert.
- Type the string (max. 250 characters) to be compared with the
contents of the monitored
Web page in the Match Content filed. Click on the Check Now button to
instantly verify the correctness of
the given details.
- Select between Get and Post,
the methods for any HTTP/HTTPS-based URLs. This is required because
certain URLs cannot be accessed using a Get request.
- Type the request parameters and their values in the form
<parameter name>=<value>, if any, to know the actual
availability of the URL. Note that you can enter only one parameter in
a line.
- Configure the user name and password for authorization. This will
be required in the pages where you need to log-on and test the
availability of the host.
- Select the required notification profile type and click Add button to associate it with this
monitor.
- Click OK to add the URL monitor.
Configuring URL
monitors in bulk
For adding multiple URL monitors, you can import the URL monitor
parameters through a csv file. The csv file must contain parameters
like Monitor name and URL to be monitored. It can also have additional
parameters like Monitoring Interval, time out, match content, profile
name and device name. Username and password fields can also be added if
the URL needs authorization. Make sure you provide the exact header
name and follow the same format provided in the sample
file.If
the values are not provided for the additional parameters in csv file,
the default values will be taken.
In the sample file, you can find a field named Device Name. It is used
for monitor the URL from that device. The device should be either
Servers or Domain Controllers. If this field is added
in the csv file, the URL will be directly added to the device snapshot
page. The display name of the device in OpManager or fully qualified
domain name should be provided in this field.
To add multiple URL
monitors, follow the steps given below:
- Go to Admin-> URL Monitor -> Add URL.
- Select Import URLs from CSV
radio button.
- Click on Browse button
to import the CSV file.
- Configure the General properties.
- Click OK to add the URL
monitors.
Viewing URL Response Time and Availability
You can get the details about the URL response time and availability
in the URL snapshot page.
To view the URL snapshot, click the URL link in the Home page or
Maps tab. Then click the URL whose snapshot you want to view.
Click the Availability chart to view the availability history and
the URL downtime/uptime chart.
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