ipMonitor 6.1
Edit QA HTTP Monitor
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The Quality Assurance HTTP Monitor tests the specified web server's ability to accept incoming sessions and transmit a requested page.

The QA HTTP Monitor requests a specified page (or cgi script) and ensures that the web server not only adheres to the HTTP protocol but also transmits the exact content of the requested page.

If "Follow Redirections" is enabled, the transaction follows all redirections until a valid file is transmitted or until an error occurs. The QA HTTP Monitor can also transmit any account and password information required by the Web server. The account and password information will be passed on every redirection.

The UNC path is the fully qualified file name of the exact file that is to be transmitted by the Web server. The account that ipMonitor runs under requires permission to access this path. If your HTTP server is running under Unix, you may need to install Unix Extensions for Microsoft Windows NT or SMB Extensions for Unix.

The Server path is the relative path of the file to retrieve.
omit: "http://www.company.com/"
Note: This monitor causes the side effect of conducting traffic on the specified virtual server. If you do not want the number of bytes transmitted (as recognized by traffic analysis software) to increase, use the "HEAD Request instead of GET" option. Regardless of how the "HEAD Request instead of GET" option is set, "hit count" on the specified page will increase unless this traffic is also ignored (usually specified by ignoring the IP address of ipMonitor's host machine). Please refer to your log analysis software documentation for specific details.

This Monitor:

  • Considers the specified resource unavailable after a specified number of seconds.
  • Persistently tests the resource at specified intervals.
  • Disallows testing during a maintenance period.
  • Waits for a specified number of failures to occur before starting alerts.
  • Switches testing intervals, from "responding correctly" to "not responding correctly". Configurable intervals allow you to test more or less aggressively in the event of failure.
  • Stops alerting after a specified number of alerts.
  • Has a placeholder for a WinNT Service Name or any other information required by a recovery script.
Please refer to Last Status by Monitor Type for details regarding Last Status codes displayed for this monitor in the Monitor Status reports.