Hi Gang,
 
While it's not a plug-in for WhatsUp, I'd recommend looking at COAST WebMaster
(www.coast.com) for web content content scanning.  It's a very effective tool
and the fact that I helped define and position it has nothing to do with my
recommendation ;-)  There's a free 15 day trial version available on their
site, give it a shot.

Cheers!

pete.;1 

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I have a way use What's Up Gold, easily, to monitor sites that have
re-directs, which would normally cause the content scan to fail, and monitor
ssl sites for content, using a small programming language called Rebol.  
 
Go to www.rebol.com and see how small (700k), but yet how powerfull this
programming language is.  The Rebol community is pretty large, so there are
many scripts out there for a lot of uses, but none specific to What's Up Gold,
yet. Once someone has said they have taken the time to do that, or just read
about it, I will take the time to post an awesome interim solution the What's
Up community has been awaiting. 
 
The completed script is around 10 lines or less.  You will be amazed on how
much such a small programming language can do. 
 
At least try it on a development box.  I have mentioned Rebol over time in the
forum.  I am pushing this so hard because once the What's Up community starts
using it, we as a communitiy will find even greater uses and someone will
design scripts that will solve other peoples issues and save us all time and
effort without installing large programming language like Perl, and without
writing nearly as much code.
 
 

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2nd that... 
 

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Virgil,
 
That only checks port availability.  A 404 error would show as up.  HTTPS
content scan is what we are all clamoring for.
 
Brandon

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HTTPS is a standard TCP service running on port 443 - you shouldn't need a
separate plugin to monitor it.  Just create a custom TCP/IP service and set
the port to 443.  It should work fine. 

- virgil 




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I know many have asked and I've tried creating a VB plug-in that would permit
HTTPS monitoring without much luck.  A while back an individual was able to
create a VB plug-in (the first in history) and provided the source code.  I
didn't have much luck with it either as I wasn't even able to get the compiled
version installed correctly on a couple of systems to reverse engineer and
tweak.  Mostly due to available time. 

Does anyone know of a 3rd party plug-in (somewhat highly configurable) or
otherwise that would monitor HTTPS sites?  Would someone with knowledge be
willing to create one as a project for a fee? 




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