Do you check if your website is running?

Last updated by Brady Stroud [SSW] almost 3 years ago.See history

If you want to know your website is working or not, you need to add a ping check to the machine also an HTTP Content Scan to the website in WhatsUp. We use WhatsUp to do real-time monitoring. Follow these steps to check your website in WhatsUp:

  1. Add your website as a new device.
    Figure: New device
  2. Ping monitor is added automatically.
    Figure: Ping monitor
  3. Add an HTTP Content Scan monitor.
    Figure: HTTP Content Scan
  4. Edit the scan script. In the script, you can see 2 keywords "Send" and "Expect". "Send" expression is an HTTP request to your website. "Expect" expression is a regular expression to check the key word in response from your website.

Figure: Edit scan script

  1. Add the monitor to your device.
    Figure: Add monitor

    Once a device is down or up, a WhatsUp action will tell SQL Reporting Services to send out a notification report. Our report looks like this:
    Figure: Website doesn't work

Figure: Website works

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