How to Monitor Web transaction in Nagios xi?

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How to Monitor Web transaction in Nagios xi?

Post by gm_rajkumar »

I have a setup like this, there are 5 applications are running ASP Net, Java and Oracle as DB. I wanted to monitor those application output of each individual.
Example: Server A returns-> Transaction A-> same transaction-id send to Server B, Server C and Server D it will be changing as Record#1. So i wanted to check all of those transactions flow should be passed on same sequence with their respective ids. In case if any of transaction fails and stopped, alert has to be send to nagios.
Do you have any solution on this or suggestion how to take this further.. thanks in advance. Let me know ifyou've any query over this..

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Re: How to Monitor Web transaction in Nagios xi?

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It sounds like you have 5 separate servers, that run the same applications. You would like to start a transaction on server A and verify that server b,c,d all see it correctly? Is this all handled through http transactions?
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Re: How to Monitor Web transaction in Nagios xi?

Post by gm_rajkumar »

You're correct, let me know how to do that..
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Re: How to Monitor Web transaction in Nagios xi?

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I would not be able to tell you how to best check your own web app, however the plugin that you would most likely want to use is WebInject. It should allow for monitoring transactions through a single or multiple servers and page loads.
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Re: How to Monitor Web transaction in Nagios xi?

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Do you have any sample configuration or how to monitor the web transaction using Webinject with examples, it would be great helpful for me to configure in setup...Thanks!!

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Re: How to Monitor Web transaction in Nagios xi?

Post by 455157 »

Here are some links that may help:

http://www.webinject.org/plugin.html

http://www.webinject.org/manual.html#tcsetup

These are linked when you run "Web Transaction" monitoring wizard as well.
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Re: How to Monitor Web transaction in Nagios xi?

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Thanks 455157!

I was going to link to the same docs...
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Re: How to Monitor Web transaction in Nagios xi?

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Im waiting for the Docs....thanks
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Re: How to Monitor Web transaction in Nagios xi?

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gm_rajkumar wrote:Im waiting for the Docs....thanks
These are the Docs

http://www.webinject.org/plugin.html

http://www.webinject.org/manual.html#tcsetup
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Re: How to Monitor Web transaction in Nagios xi?

Post by gm_rajkumar »

Otherthan this, do you have any other plugins to monitor the Web service and URL sequence monitoring available in Nagios xi???
Do you have any GUI utility to verify the testcases are written fine or not?? any suggestions highly appreciated..Thanks!!