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I have a remote system health monitoring application that can watch my servers health using SNMP and other methods for making sure my web servers and other servers and equipment stay up and running. Is there anything in the software to let me monitor the application health directly?
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Yes, with XUD version 3.8.1 and later, you can use a remote monitoring application to make sure the application can communicate with the configured database server. If you are using an earlier version of XUD, upgrade to a more recent version, or you can simply copy the XUDRemoteMonitorStatus.asp file from an update package of 3.8.1 to your installation for any previous 3.x installations. To use the remote monitor feature, your monitoring application will need to be able to perform HTTP requests and verify the existence of a specific string of characters in the HTTP response that indicate the application is communicating without any problems with your configured database. To do this, setup an HTTP monitor in your monitoring tool and have it check the URL:
http://www.your-site-url.com/membership/XUDRemoteMonitorStatus.asp.
Of course, be sure to change the root part of the URL and path to reflect your site installation. Then, where your monitoring application should provide the option for it to check for the presence of a specific string of characters in the HTTP response, enter the following text:
There were 0 total errors encountered.
This text will be present in the response as long as the system can successfully communicate with the database. If an error condition is present, the text will change to reflect the current error and your monitoring software should detect any failure by a change in that text string. If errors are encountered, this status string changes to report how many errors were encountered.
If your monitoring software has more detailed options for intrepreting the results of the text returned in the HTTP response, there are more specific status results displed within the HTTP response that your monitoring software can record or send to you.
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