Scripting a Website Transaction

Daniel333

All,

Not sure if any tool does this. But we have a third party payment company that provide a diagnostic web site to us. Essentially type in username/password and check the service and it returns up or down as an jsp page.

Are you aware of any scripts or tools to create a synthetic transaction and report the results back to an alarm etc? Anyone ever have to do this before? How did you handle it?

NotHackingYou

Sure, you can do an HTTP post in C# and examine the response in code fairly easily. I have written a few applications that do this in the past.

Edit: Mostly I did this to check if a website was available and/or post XML to an interface and examine the response.

Everyone

I think you could configure Nagios to do this. I'm sure SCOM or pick your monitoring software of choice could do it as well.

NotHackingYou

You could also use Keynote Red Alert Web Site Monitoring by Keynote Red Alert