RE: [WhatsUp Forum] Webpage monitoring dilemma

[Jeff Cook]

I don't know of a way to monitor a web site that will not show in the logs.
If you are running these, you could just put an extra site on each box. Then
only monitor your test site.  That would tell you if the services the site
use are up, but not sites themselves.  

Or just filter your test page out of the log files.


-----Original Message-----
    From: "TC Roffey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
    Sent: 8/27/03 12:29:16 PM
    To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
    Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] Webpage monitoring dilemma
    
    Just a question on my part but if you do it that way it would seem that
the biggest user to hit the web sites of these 50 clients would be WUG.  Is
that okay with the clients?  That's going to populate the server syslogs for
every call to the html content and I know some admins that gets mighty
annoyed with the "noise".
     
    TC Roffey 
    Covestic WiFi Support 
     
    
    -----Original Message-----
    From: Jeff Cook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
    Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 11:59 AM
    To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
    Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] Webpage monitoring dilemma
    
    
    I would setup a test page for each domain,  it would have the same path
and name.  The content should be close to the same.  If you have a database
on the website it should check for some info on the site.  You could have
the page try to do everything that all of the other pages would do. The page
should then return an error or an all ok.  Then you only need to create one
service to monitor all of the sites. Plus when the content changes you don't
have to reconfigure all of you services.  
     
     
    Jeff Cook
    Network Administrator
    Whatcom Educational Credit Union
     
     -----Original Message-----
    From: Alvaro Quesada [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
    Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 4:14 PM
    To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
    Subject: [WhatsUp Forum] Webpage monitoring dilemma
    
    
    Hello,
     
    Maybe one of you guys could help me out with my dilemma.
     
    I have 50 clients that I need to monitor specific WebPages for (i.e.
http://www.yourdomain.com/test.html). Unfortunately just monitoring the http
service is not an option.
    Now each of these clients could possibly have hundreds of pages I would
need to monitor. Also these pages could change
    Daily for all 50 clients. 
     
    What would be the fastest way to setup a method for this data entry so
it doesn't get to be such a chore when I have to swap out old pages and/or
add new ones?
     
    Currently, I set up one custom device I created for each client then I
create a custom service scans for each separate page I need to monitor for
each client.
    As you can tell this will at one point become unmanageable.
     
    There is allot of work to be done just to add or remove a page scan, not
just that but also I am sure there is a limit as to how many services whats
up gold will let you monitor on each device.
     
    So if anybody has any ideas on how to make this process less of a chore
then I am all ears.
     
     
     
    Thanks,
     
    Al Quesada

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