Foglight for Infrastructure 6.3.0 - Foglight for Web Monitor User and Reference Guide

To start monitoring a Web site:

On the Transaction Management dashboard, click Add.

The Add Transactions dialog box appears.

The Add Transactions dialog box shows a list of the Web sites whose transactions you want to monitor, a list of all Web Monitor Agent locations in your environment, and links to additional configuration settings.

In the Add Transactions dialog box, provide information about the Web site whose transactions you want to start monitoring.

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URL: The URL of the Web site that you want to monitor.


	TIP: The Web Monitor Agent validates the URL address in the background, to prevent you from adding the duplicate URL address that has been monitored.

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Transaction Name: The name you want to associate with the transactions with this Web site.


	NOTE: It is not allowed to associate multiple URL addresses with a same transaction.

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Get Page Header Only: Indicates whether you want to collect the page header only.

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Expected Content: If content validation is enabled for the agent instance that you want to monitor this URL, and the expected content type is HTML-based, type html in this column. Also, a text string could be used such as “laptop” and type laptop into this column. In case the monitoring agent detects binary content or the text string at this address, the validation fails and the agent logs an error message.

Content validation can be enabled using the URL List secondary agent properties. For more information, see Settings.

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Unexpected Content: If unexpected content validation is enabled for the agent instance that you want to monitor this URL, and the unexpected content type is HTML-based, type html in this column. Also, a text string could be used such as “laptop” and type laptop into this column. In case the monitoring agent detects binary content or the text string at this address, the validation fails and the agent logs an error message. If this column is empty, that means the agent is not required to perform unexpected content validation.

Unexpected Content validation can be enabled using the URL List secondary agent properties. For more information, see Settings.

To add more URLs to the list, click Add, and populate the row that appears. To remove a row from the list, click

In the Deploy to Locations area, select one or more Web Monitor Agent locations that you want to use to monitor the transactions with the newly specified Web sites.

If the host from which you want to configure transaction monitoring does not appear on the list, that is because it does not have a running instance of the Web Monitor Agent. To create a Web Monitor Agent instance on that host, click Set up Agents and configure the agent instance on that host. For more information about installing and configuring agent instances, see the Administration and Configuration Help.


	TIP: The Web Monitor Agent requires a running instance of the Foglight Agent Manager on the same host. For details on installing and running the Agent Manager, see the Agent Manager Guide.

Optional—Specify thresholds for alarm generation, authentication, and proxy settings. If the URL requires user authentication, you need to supply credentials for accessing that URL.

Click Optional Advanced Settings.

The Advanced Settings dialog box appears.

In the Advanced Settings dialog box, in the Response time alarm firing conditions area, review the thresholds for alarm generation, and edit them, if required.

In the Authentication and proxy settings area, specify the following information, as required.

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URL authentication required: Select this check box only if the URL requires user authentication. If that is the case, you need to ensure that you have proper credentials in place to enable the Web Monitor Agent to access it. Click Manage Credentials to review the existing credentials, or to create new ones, as required. For more information, see Configuring credentials to access Web sites requiring user authentication.


	TIP: When finished, you can return to this dialog box using the breadcrumb trail.

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Use proxy for URL connection: Select this check box only if the Web Monitor needs to use a proxy to access the specified URL. Click Manage Credentials to review the existing credentials, and create new ones, as required. For more information, see Configuring credentials to access Web sites requiring user authentication.

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Server: If you need to configure proxy access, type the name of the proxy server followed by the port number.

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Proxy authentication required: Select this check box if the proxy requires authentication.

Click Save.

The Advanced Settings dialog box closes.

In the Add Transactions dialog box, click Save.

The Operation(s) Complete message box appears.