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Advanced Website Event Monitor Reference Guide

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Overview​

The Advanced Website Event Monitor offers comprehensive monitoring of website metrics, verifying responsiveness, checking content, detecting changes, timing page loads, and much more. This tool is ideal for thorough website monitoring and offers enhanced features compared to the basic Website Event Monitor.

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Use Cases​

  • Verifying that a website is responding to requests.
  • Alerting when a webpage content changes.
  • Monitoring SSL certificate statuses.
  • Timing the response time of webpages.

Monitoring Options​

URLs and Connectivity​

  • URLs: Enter the URLs to be checked in the format http://[devicename]/index.html. The placeholder [devicename] will be replaced by the actual device name during monitoring.
  • Alert with [Info/Warning/Error/Critical] if the web server cannot be contacted: Get alerts when the server is unreachable.
  • Alert with [Info/Warning/Error/Critical] if a status other than 200 is returned: Trigger alerts for any HTTP status codes other than 200, indicating success.

Content Monitoring​

  • Alert with [Info/Warning/Error/Critical] if the page content contains specified text: Alerts if certain text is found on the page, useful for spotting error messages.
  • Alert with [Info/Warning/Error/Critical] if the page content does not contain specified text: Alerts if expected text is missing from the page.
  • Perform an advanced content check: Execute custom Javascript checks on page content. Adjust the Result.Status and Result.Text based on the findings.

Performance Metrics​

  • Download the page multiple times and alert based on download times: Evaluate page load performance by downloading the page multiple times.
  • Alert if the average download time is greater than a specified value: Monitor average download speeds.
  • Alert if the maximum download time is greater than a specified value: Monitor peak download speeds.
  • List the download times in each notification: Include download times in alert notifications.

Additional Options​

  • Follow HTTP redirects: Follow any redirects to ensure monitoring of the final destination page.
  • Save the downloaded page contents to a file: Save the content for further analysis, specifying the path on the PIM+ server.
  • Connect Time Out: Specify how long to wait while trying to establish a connection.
  • Receive Time Out: Specify how long to wait for the webpage to load after a connection has been made.

Authentication and Security​

  • Password Protected Pages: For password-protected pages, specify credentials for HTTP authentication.
  • User Name and Password: Enter the username and password for accessing secured pages.

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Data Points​

  • This event monitor generates the following data points:
Data PointDescription
Average Download TimeThe calculated average time it takes for the website to be downloaded.
Maximum Download TimeThe maximum time it takes the website to be downloaded.

Sample Output​

Sample Output