Website Monitoring

This article was updated to support v11.7.8 of Goliath Performance Monitor.

1. Navigate to the Configure - Inventory screen
2. Click the New button at the top of the page 
3. Enter the domain name or other identifier of the web server in to the Server/Device Name  
4. Populate the IP Address field or if you do not know what the IP address of the web server is, you can choose the button to the right for product to perform an IP Lookup 
5. Optionally, add a description
6. Assign to a group for organizational purposes
7. Click on the Properties button at the bottom of the pane 
8. Under the IP Services tab, choose HTTP from the IP Service drop down menu and select Enable
9. Optionally, select the Secure checkbox to indicate that a secure (SSL, etc.) protocol check should be made 
10. In the Port field, define the port number 
11. In the Timeout field, define the time to wait for a positive response  
12. In the Look for field, optionally define a string to be looked for and checked on the default web page or alternate specified page (See Page Name Field below). If the Look for string is not found, the HTTP check fails. 
    1. If you precede the Look for string parameter with the characters ‘%!’ (without quotes), then it is treated as an ‘Exclude’ directive meaning, the HTTP check is successful only if the Look for string is not found 
    2. You can specify multiple Look for entries, each separated by a semi-colon, to correspond with multiple ‘Page Names’ 
13. In the Page Name, optionally define an alternate page to the default page, to check. The Page has to exist for the HTTP check to 
    1. Use a percent followed by a URL and Goliath will make the HTTP connect attempt using the URL instead of the IP address. For example, ’%www.breakoutsoft.com’ (without the quotes).  This is often useful to check redirected URLs.  In this case, Goliath detects the redirection and verifies the redirected page. 
    2. you can specify multiple Page Names, each separated by a semi-colon, and the HTTP check of each page must be successful for the check to be successful
14. Please Note, the Username & Password fields are not applicable for the HTTP service
15. When finished click Save
16. Go the Configure - Monitoring Rules  page to setup the alert condition for this website.
17. Click the New button at the top of the page 
18. Choose ServerWatch from the ‘Monitoring Rules for All Physical & Virtual Servers and Devices:’ category 
19. Enter a rule/alert name 
20. Specify a description so you can identify what this alert is for later
21. On the tree at the bottom, expand the option next to ‘HTTP’ 
22. Choose the website which will be listed as the same Server/Device name you set earlier, and check off the box.
23. Go to the Schedule tab and specify how you wish to be alerted.
24. Go to the Notifications tab and specify your preferences if you wish to be emailed for when the website is not available under the Email tab.
25. When finished click Save
26. To view the generated alerts you can go to the Dashboards - Status page,  Dashboards - Alerts page, or the Dashboards - Availability page