Do you check if your website is running?

If you want to know your website is working or not, you need to add a ping check to the machine also an HTTP Content Scan to the website in WhatsUp. We use WhatsUp to do real-time monitoring. Follow these steps to check your website in WhatsUp:

1. Add your website as a new device.

Figure: New device

1. Ping monitor is added automatically.

Figure: Ping monitor

1. Add an HTTP Content Scan monitor.

Figure: HTTP Content Scan

1. Edit the scan script. In the script, you can see 2 keywords "Send" and "Expect". "Send" expression is an HTTP request to your website. "Expect" expression is a regular expression to check the key word in response from your website.

Figure: Edit scan script

1. Add the monitor to your device.

Figure: Add monitor

Once a device is down or up, a WhatsUp action will tell SQL Reporting Services to send out a notification report. Our report looks like this:

Figure: Website doesn't work

Figure: Website works