RE: [NTISP] HTTP MONITORI

Jeff Binkley ( jeff.binkley@asacomp.com )
Tue, 25 May 1999 08:20:00 -0500

Thanks. I have been trading E-Mail with their supprot folks right now
on it. It seems to work fine on Apache servers but none of our NT IIS
servers workey are looking into it. I also am testing IPSentry based
upon some advice of another person here. It seems to be going much
better. I like being able to test telnet and radius and having the web
reporting. The only major thing missing is the ability to write
seperate reports for each web server so we can show a customer how their
particular web server is available vs. making them look at everything.
Supposedly the next release of IPSentry will fix this. I did find the
version of IPSentry off of ZDnet wouldn't run properly and I had to
download it directly from them.

Jeff Binkley
ASA Network Computing

N>Hi,

N>I am using Watchdog to monitor, among other things, our web server. I
N>= do not receive the 404 error (File not Found), and I run IIS4.0.
N>= Right now the HTTP Page test is configured in this way:
N>Page: http://www.webjogger.net/
N>Via Web Proxy Server (host:port): (blank)

N>Perhaps if you are receiving a 404 error, the Watchdog is sending a =
N>query for a page which doesn't exist on the server. The default page
N>= for the http://www.webjogger.net/ page above is "default.htm" I'm
N>not = sure if that's significant.

N>Good luck!
N>Adam
N>-----Original Message-----
N>From: Jeff Binkley <jeff.binkley@asacomp.com>
N>To: ntisp@iea-software.com <ntisp@iea-software.com>
N>Date: Sunday, May 23, 1999 5:32 PM
N>Subject: [NTISP] HTTP Monitoring Tool

N>I am looking for a tool which runs under NT that I can schedule to
N>periodically check to see if a web server is up. I'd like to be
N>able to schedule which HTML page or ASP page is hit. I looked
N>at the Watchdog product, which seems to fit the bill but I can't
N>get it to work with IIS. It gets a 404 error, object not found,
N>yet it works fine against a Unix Apache system. If it had features
N>like meaasuring the time it took to load the page and log it, that
N>would be even better.

N>Thanks in advance,

N>Jeff Binkley
N>ASA Network Computing

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