Scott, There are several articles on our knowledge base on the "HTTP Content Scan". Here are a few that should help: http://support.ipswitch.com/kb/WG-19990719-DM01.htm http://support.ipswitch.com/kb/WG-19991214-DM01.htm http://support.ipswitch.com/kb/WG-19990924-DM02.htm
It is often useful to open the debug log when testing a new monitor as you can watch the entire conversation during the poll. Regards, Joe In reply to 3 Dec message from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >Joe, Chris, >What are the steps for creating a HTTP content monitor? >Scott >-----Original Message----- >From: Joe Sepielli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, >December 02, 2002 3:48 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [WhatsUp Forum] HTTP content scan >Chris, >First try this: >Send=GET /index.shtml HTTP/1.0\r\nAccept: */*\r\nUser-Agent: >Ipswitch_Whatsup/4.0\r\n\r\n >Expect=~.*</html> >Apply the HTTP Content Scan to the device: www.keane.com. >Then refine your Expect= statement to achieve the text match that >you are looking for. >I tried it from here and it worked fine. >Regards, >Joe >In reply to 27 Nov message from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >>Hi, people. >>I need to set up some HTTP content scans in WUG 7.04. Not too >>skilled in this area. In browsing the knowledge base and manual, >>let me see if I've got it right. >>Wanting to monitor our company's website home page, we're going to >>have a comment permanently encoded (Keane IT monitoring), which I >>will run the content scan for. I'm going to create a device for >>the webserver (with IP address). I'm then going to fiddle with >>the HTTP Content Scan service included with 7.04 as such: >>Here's the default HTTP Content Scan coding......... >>Send=GET / HTTP/1.0\r\nAccept: */*\r\nUser-Agent: >>Ipswitch_Whatsup/4.0\r\n\r\n >>Expect=~.*</html> >>I want to look for "Keane IT monitoring" on the homepage >>www.keane.com. The url for the homepage is >>http://www.keane.com/index.shtml. What should my Send and Expect >>lines look like?? >>Thanks...................... >>Chris Powers >>Systems Engineer >>MCSE, CNA, Network+, A+ >>Keane IT Technical Services >>Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to >>be removed from this list. >>An Archive of this list is available at: >>http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ >Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to >be removed from this list. >An Archive of this list is available at: >http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ >Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to >be removed from this list. >An Archive of this list is available at: >http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
