HTTP Monitor

Knowledge Front’s HTTP monitoring is simple and reliable. Multiple monitoring locations fetch the specified url on a configurable frequency. If the test fails or a required string is not found and alert will trigger.

Configuration Options

Label:

A name that is easier to read than an IP address or fully qualified domain name. Primary DNS for example.

Timer:

How often each monitoring location will run the test. A 2 minute timer means that each configured monitoring location will perform a test every 2 minutes.

URL:

Uniform Resource Locator in the form of http://www.example.com/path/

If a specific port is required use the standard form http://www.example.com:8080/path/

For SSL support use https://www.example.com/path/

Time Zone:

The time zone used when viewing reports for this monitor.

HTTP Authentication:

Authentication method to use if the web server requires it to access the URL. Choices are

• No HTTP authentication - performs a normal GET request with no authentication
• basic - Simple authentication mechanism that is rarely used these days
• digest - MD5 hash of username:password typically. See Digest authentication for more information.
• NTLM - NT Lan Manager challenge-response authentication used by Windows

Once an authentication selection is made username and password fields will appear.