Example

Monitor the availability of the web page http://www.mycompany.com/ at five-minute intervals. If the page is inaccessible, repeat the test at most two times, with five seconds between each repeated test.

Create a HTTP profile element and set the fields to the values shown in Table 1.

Table 1. HTTP profile element example
Configuration field	Value
server	`www.mycompany.com`
page	`/`
description	`Example - basic web page monitor`
Active	Selected
poll	`300`
failureretests	`2`
retestinterval	`5`

Using a proxy server

Monitor the availability of the web page http://www.mycompany.com/index.html accessed via the proxy server proxy.monitor.com, which requires authentication credentials proxyuser/proxypass.

Create a new HTTP profile element and set the fields shown in Table 2.

Table 2. HTTP proxy profile element example
Profile element configuration field	Value
server	`www.mycompany.com`
page	`index.html`
description	`Example - monitoring via a proxy server`
Active	Selected
Proxy details
server	`proxy.monitor.com`
useproxy	`proxy`
authenticationtype	`BASIC`
username	`proxyuser`
password	`proxypass`

Form parameters and regular expression matching

Monitor the operation of the form http://support.mycompany.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi by sending HTTP POST requests with the form parameter search=ism, and use a regular expression to match the string Your search was successful in the response. If this string is returned in the response, classify the service level as Good, and Failed otherwise.

Create a new HTTP profile element and set the fields shown in Table 3.

Table 3. HTTP form profile element example
Profile element configuration field	Value
server	`support.mycompany.com`
page	`/cgi-bin/search.cgi`
description	`Example - form parameters and regular expressions`
Active	Selected
Regular expression details
match 1	`Your search was successful`
Service level classification details
statement	`Regexp Status 1 = MATCHED then status GOOD`
Head and Form details
name	`search`
value	`ism`
type	`FORM`