Website Monitoring

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

1. Navigate to the ‘Configure>Inventory’ screen
2. Select ‘New’ from the bottom 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. Optionally, specify a group or secondary group if applicable
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. Go the ‘Monitoring Rules’  page also under Configure tab to setup the alert condition for this website.
16. Choose ‘New’ from the bottom of the page 
17. Choose ‘ServerWatch’ from the ‘Monitoring Rules for All Physical & Virtual Servers and Devices:’ category 
18. Enter a the rule/alert name 
19. Specify a description so you can identify what this alert is for later
20. On the tree at the bottom, expand the option next to ‘HTTP’ 
21. Choose the website which will be listed as the same Server/Device name you set earlier, and check off the box.
22. Go to the Schedule tab and specify how you wish to be alerted.
23. 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. 
24. Go to the ‘Dashboard’ tab, and then 'Dashboard" submenu option
25. In the ‘Categories’ tab, at the bottom of the page you will see a section for ‘Network & Storage Devices’ Status Display so you can see if the website is available.
    1. If you click on the icon to the right of the colored box (hopefully green to indicate being up), you can see if the website has been down or unavailable over the course of the 1 hour to 1 week interval.