I have a ZenPack that should be released (hopefully) today that is

based on twill called "Synthetic Web Transactions" that will run

through a process of stepping through a website (fill out forms, log

in, follow links, post data, etc...), time the length of completion,

and graph the results to an RRD graph. If the transaction fails (post

was not successful, login failed, etc..), it will report an error to

the website as either a critical or error, depending on how you want

the alert to be issued.

Was that the ZenPack you are talking about?

Sonny Stormes

What kind of header data are you expecting to manipulate in a

transaction? Twill simulates a browser in every way, so if you need to

add data to your URL like:

http://www.example.com/?ui=2#somekindofdatablahblah

Then if you include it in your "go" statement, the simulated browser

will post the data just like from a standard browser. The way I run

synthetic transactions is to start at our customer portal, fill in the

login and password information, login like a regular user, follow

links, post some test data, search for specific data verifying

database communications (the two ensure that the database is

performing reads and writes), and log out.

HTH

Sonny

Here's the new ZenPack:

Thanks to Sonny Stormes!

You can use the ZenPack with snmp monitored systems and by directly

testing against a systems webserver name, the idea behind the

directions was that sites that are being monitored as a part of a

cluster or load balancer would only use the web address and not the

direct server name.

Sonny

Try it with the zenpack unzipped first and see if the error still occurs.

This is all in the documentation... I however am a bit confused... I'm

guessing it's best practice to actually use the sort of "disembodied

device" websites so you can monitor multiple sites on the same device.

But when you say the website name(as the device name actually), can that

be something like:

www.zenoss.org/my/sub/page.htm

and another

www.zenoss.org/my/other/page.htm

?

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James Pulver

Information Technology Area Supervisor

LEPP Computer Group

Cornell University

sjacobs wrote, On 10/21/2009 7:04 AM:

it seems you need to manually create the websites device class and unzip the file.

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