ipMonitor 6.1
Edit HTTP Monitor
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The HTTP Monitor tests the specified Web server's ability to accept incoming sessions and to conduct a transaction. A request for the default page (/) is sent to ensure that the Web server is responding correctly to the HTTP protocol.

Note: The HTTP Monitor causes the side effect of conducting traffic on the specified Web site. To avoid this, select the "HEAD request instead of Get" option. The number of bytes transmitted (as recognized by traffic analysis software) will remain at zero. Regardless of this setting, the "hit count" for the default page will increase unless traffic from the ipMonitor host machine is somehow excluded from the calculations. 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.