KS-Soft

Is it possible to add a new test but delay its start time? For example we'd like to add HTTP tests immediately for new sites. These tests will make requests to the DNS name rather than an IP address. Obviously until such time DNS propagation has completed these tests would fail. Can we add tests and...

Hi Alex, Thanks for the reply. Will give the Telnet feature a shot and see how we get on. It would be great if we could also add Action Profiles in a similar manner to the text file test import feature, I guess that's our major friction point because we provide customers with their own Action Profil...

Yes I just realised I could export in text format and see how they are constructed

Thanks again
Kev

KS-Soft wrote:We change list of parameters all the time...
If you want to find some parameters, you may export such test into text and check the file.

Regards
Alex

Thanks Alex.

Is there a full list of the parameters you can use, I couldn't find that documented.

There's the sample import file but those two parameters aren't listed.

Kevin

KS-Soft wrote:Add 2 lines into test description
UseNormal = Yes
NormalExpr = %HttpCode%<>503

Regards
Alex

Hi Alex, We love hostmonitor but as a hoster we have to streamline processes through automation. HMS + the import test feature provides some automation capability but it's just not quite there. We've nearly got the ability to add/delete/disable/enable tests from our admin systems by using a few http...

Following up from my previous question Configure HTTP test to go bad only on 503 status . We're generating and importing tests automatically using an "Execute HMS script" action and executing the ImportFromFile command, for example: ; We use a Http test to poll a web page that returns a si...

Hi Alex,

Ah ha! I never noticed the wee [+] next to Optional Status Processing to expand this pane.

Thanks again for the speedy reply.


Cheers
Kevin

KS-Soft wrote:Set "Use Normal status if %HttpCode%<>503" option in Test Properties dialog

Regards
Alex

How do I configure the HTTP test to only go bad if the http header contains: HTTP/1.1 503 We are testing IIS7 application pool availability on windows 2008. We don't care about status's such as 3xx, 4xx or 500. If we get these then we know the app pool is running/accepting requests and consider them...

You may setup "Custom HTML" report using variables in the template like: %TestID% ; %TestName% ; %TestMethod% ; %Folder% ; %FullPath% ; %AlertProfile% Please check the manual or visit our web site for more information at: http://www.ks-soft.net/hostmon.eng/mframe.htm#profiles.htm#CustomHT...

How do I create a report of all the tests we run. I'd need: TestID (not eventID) Testname TestMethod Folder FullPath AlertProfile Any format would do as long as I can parse it. I know I can do a select distinct on the database we ODBC log to but it's huge and we need to refresh this data every 30 mi...

Hi again Alex, Is there a way to create Action Profiles using HMS Script or the test import feature? As I mentioned before we're integrating with our provisioning systems and adding/deleting tests using HMS Script and generating an import file. However we need to be able to have certain tests where ...

Value of the database field that you need to check is displayed in Reply field of the test so you may use %Reply% macro variable. You may also use %Reply_CStyle%, %Reply_Number% or %Reply_Integer% when necessary. PS I think you may create select request that will join several database fields into o...

ODBC test method may return value of single field. Regarding your needs... I cannot say I like this idea :roll: I think its much better to modify your utility (generator.exe?) so it will be able to retrieve data from your database and generate import file for HostMonitor (without using ODBC test). ...

It would be nice to be able to get the result of an ODBC SQL Query into a %MACRO% variable. Ideal: Parse the SQL query result into a delimited string, for example: select field1, field2, field3 from hmlog_createtestqueue HM would parse the results and push into a %MACRO% value: "fieldvalue1a&qu...

KS-Soft wrote:You may try undocumented "DeleteTest" command.

Regards
Alex

Excellent!...Thanks for the prompt response Alex.