Monitoring websites

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How can we monitor whether certain website is working or not. We want to do
this every minute. Can we write something, or should go for thirdparty
vendors?

[George Ter-Saakov]

Obviously you need to monitor it from another computer than your server.
Preferably even from different building....

Just write an application that would hit your ASPX page with WebRequest
http://www.west-wind.com/presentatio...WebRequest.htm

That page need to attempt to connect to database and/or any other external
resource you using and do
Response.Write("OK")
Response.End()

Your monitoring software need to check if it comes back with 200 HTTP status
message and has OK in it.
A lot of third party vendors simply ping the server and will not notice that
DB is down for example.
George
"rkbnair" <rk*****@community.nospamwrote in message
news:2F**********************************@microsof t.com...

How can we monitor whether certain website is working or not. We want to
do
this every minute. Can we write something, or should go for thirdparty
vendors?

[=?Utf-8?B?cmtibmFpcg==?=]

Great !

Thanks for the help.

"George Ter-Saakov" wrote:

Obviously you need to monitor it from another computer than your server.
Preferably even from different building....

Just write an application that would hit your ASPX page with WebRequest
http://www.west-wind.com/presentatio...WebRequest.htm

That page need to attempt to connect to database and/or any other external
resource you using and do
Response.Write("OK")
Response.End()

Your monitoring software need to check if it comes back with 200 HTTP status
message and has OK in it.
A lot of third party vendors simply ping the server and will not notice that
DB is down for example.
George
"rkbnair" <rk*****@community.nospamwrote in message
news:2F**********************************@microsof t.com...

How can we monitor whether certain website is working or not. We want to
do
this every minute. Can we write something, or should go for thirdparty
vendors?

[John Timney \(MVP\)]

Another alternative is to use SCOM (monitoring)

Regards

John Timney (MVP)
http://www.johntimney.com
http://www.johntimney.com/blog

"rkbnair" <rk*****@community.nospamwrote in message
news:83**********************************@microsof t.com...

Great !

Thanks for the help.

"George Ter-Saakov" wrote:

>Obviously you need to monitor it from another computer than your server.
Preferably even from different building....

Just write an application that would hit your ASPX page with WebRequest
http://www.west-wind.com/presentatio...WebRequest.htm

That page need to attempt to connect to database and/or any other
external
resource you using and do
Response.Write("OK")
Response.End()

Your monitoring software need to check if it comes back with 200 HTTP
status
message and has OK in it.
A lot of third party vendors simply ping the server and will not notice
that
DB is down for example.
George
"rkbnair" <rk*****@community.nospamwrote in message
news:2F**********************************@microso ft.com...

How can we monitor whether certain website is working or not. We want
to
do
this every minute. Can we write something, or should go for thirdparty
vendors?

[=?Utf-8?B?cmtibmFpcg==?=]

What kind of application I have to write though?

If it is an asp.net application, how can I make it run automatically, say in
every 10 minutes? What about a Windows Service?
"George Ter-Saakov" wrote:

Obviously you need to monitor it from another computer than your server.
Preferably even from different building....

Just write an application that would hit your ASPX page with WebRequest
http://www.west-wind.com/presentatio...WebRequest.htm

That page need to attempt to connect to database and/or any other external
resource you using and do
Response.Write("OK")
Response.End()

Your monitoring software need to check if it comes back with 200 HTTP status
message and has OK in it.
A lot of third party vendors simply ping the server and will not notice that
DB is down for example.
George
"rkbnair" <rk*****@community.nospamwrote in message
news:2F**********************************@microsof t.com...

How can we monitor whether certain website is working or not. We want to
do
this every minute. Can we write something, or should go for thirdparty
vendors?

[=?Utf-8?B?cmtibmFpcg==?=]

SCOM looks promising. However, we have to buy the whole thing for just to
check whether the site is ok.
--
test
"John Timney (MVP)" wrote:

Another alternative is to use SCOM (monitoring)

Regards

John Timney (MVP)
http://www.johntimney.com
http://www.johntimney.com/blog

"rkbnair" <rk*****@community.nospamwrote in message
news:83**********************************@microsof t.com...

Great !

Thanks for the help.

"George Ter-Saakov" wrote:

Obviously you need to monitor it from another computer than your server.
Preferably even from different building....

Just write an application that would hit your ASPX page with WebRequest
http://www.west-wind.com/presentatio...WebRequest.htm

That page need to attempt to connect to database and/or any other
external
resource you using and do
Response.Write("OK")
Response.End()

Your monitoring software need to check if it comes back with 200 HTTP
status
message and has OK in it.
A lot of third party vendors simply ping the server and will not notice
that
DB is down for example.
George
"rkbnair" <rk*****@community.nospamwrote in message
news:2F**********************************@microsof t.com...
How can we monitor whether certain website is working or not. We want
to
do
this every minute. Can we write something, or should go for thirdparty
vendors?

[George Ter-Saakov]

Any kind you can write will do :)
Windows Service is preferable. But regular appliation will do as well. Put
it on schedule Control Panel/Scheduled Tasks
It depends on how you want to react if server is down..... If you want to
get paged write a windows service, if you want to see pop-up on your home
computer write a regular app.

George.
"rkbnair" <rk*****@community.nospamwrote in message
news:37**********************************@microsof t.com...

What kind of application I have to write though?

If it is an asp.net application, how can I make it run automatically, say
in
every 10 minutes? What about a Windows Service?
"George Ter-Saakov" wrote:

>Obviously you need to monitor it from another computer than your server.
Preferably even from different building....

Just write an application that would hit your ASPX page with WebRequest
http://www.west-wind.com/presentatio...WebRequest.htm

That page need to attempt to connect to database and/or any other
external
resource you using and do
Response.Write("OK")
Response.End()

Your monitoring software need to check if it comes back with 200 HTTP
status
message and has OK in it.
A lot of third party vendors simply ping the server and will not notice
that
DB is down for example.
George
"rkbnair" <rk*****@community.nospamwrote in message
news:2F**********************************@microso ft.com...

How can we monitor whether certain website is working or not. We want
to
do
this every minute. Can we write something, or should go for thirdparty
vendors?

[=?Utf-8?B?cmtibmFpcg==?=]

OK, now I understand.

Thanks a lot.

"George Ter-Saakov" wrote:

Any kind you can write will do :)
Windows Service is preferable. But regular appliation will do as well. Put
it on schedule Control Panel/Scheduled Tasks
It depends on how you want to react if server is down..... If you want to
get paged write a windows service, if you want to see pop-up on your home
computer write a regular app.

George.
"rkbnair" <rk*****@community.nospamwrote in message
news:37**********************************@microsof t.com...

What kind of application I have to write though?

If it is an asp.net application, how can I make it run automatically, say
in
every 10 minutes? What about a Windows Service?
"George Ter-Saakov" wrote:

Obviously you need to monitor it from another computer than your server.
Preferably even from different building....

Just write an application that would hit your ASPX page with WebRequest
http://www.west-wind.com/presentatio...WebRequest.htm

That page need to attempt to connect to database and/or any other
external
resource you using and do
Response.Write("OK")
Response.End()

Your monitoring software need to check if it comes back with 200 HTTP
status
message and has OK in it.
A lot of third party vendors simply ping the server and will not notice
that
DB is down for example.
George
"rkbnair" <rk*****@community.nospamwrote in message
news:2F**********************************@microsof t.com...
How can we monitor whether certain website is working or not. We want
to
do
this every minute. Can we write something, or should go for thirdparty
vendors?