HTTP Monitor
Knowledge Front’s HTTP monitoring is simple and reliable. Multiple monitoring locations fetch the specified url on a configurable frequency. If the test fails or a required string is not found and alert will trigger.
- Label:
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A name that is easier to read than an IP address or fully qualified domain name. Primary DNS for example.
- Timer:
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How often each monitoring location will run the test. A 2 minute timer means that each configured monitoring location will perform a test every 2 minutes.
- URL:
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Uniform Resource Locator in the form of http://www.example.com/path/
If a specific port is required use the standard form http://www.example.com:8080/path/
For SSL support use https://www.example.com/path/
- Time Zone:
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The time zone used when viewing reports for this monitor.
- HTTP Authentication:
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Authentication method to use if the web server requires it to access the URL. Choices are
- No HTTP authentication - performs a normal GET request with no authentication
- basic - Simple authentication mechanism that is rarely used these days
- digest - MD5 hash of username:password typically. See Digest authentication for more information.
- NTLM - NT Lan Manager challenge-response authentication used by Windows
Once an authentication selection is made username and password fields will appear.