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IBM Tivoli Monitoring > Version 6.3 > User's Guides > Agent Builder User's Guide > Monitor HTTP availability and response time IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3


Monitor a URL

You can start monitoring any URL by including it in the URLs file or using the URL Add Take Action option.


URLs file

The URLs file specified in configuration can be in any directory. If this file does not exist or is empty, then you can start URL monitoring by using Take Actions. For more information, see (Take Action option). If you already have a Tivoli Universal Agent that uses the Tivoli Universal Agent HTTP Data Provider, you can reuse the KUMPURLS file. When you are configuring the agent, point to your KUMPURLS file.

The following table provides examples of how URLs are entered in the URLs file, depending on the method by which they were added.


URLs file entries

URLs Added by

    www.bbc.co.uk
    http://weather.com
    www.ibm.com

Manually adding entries to the file. If no protocol is specified, as in the www.ibm.com example, http is assumed.
ftp://userid:password@ftpserver/index.html Manually added by using File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
http://www.ibm.com USER=ibm ALIAS=ibm Use the URL Add Take Action

    file:/tmp/samples.html USER=samples \
    ALIAS=samples

Use a URL Add Take Action that uses FTP

    http://google.com INTERVAL=60 CACHE=50 \
    USER=google ALIAS=search

Example from the Tivoli Universal Agent KUMPURLS file

When you directly edit the URLs file, your changes are implemented when the agent does its next data collection.


Take Action option

You can also specify URLs to monitor through a Take Action option that is called URL Add. When this option is selected, a window is displayed where you can specify the following parameters:

URL

A required parameter that represents the URL itself. You can type this parameter with or without the http://or https://prefix.

Alias

An optional parameter that you can specify to associate a more meaningful name to a URL. No spaces are allowed in this parameter. If this parameter is not completed, the Alias Name defaults to blank.

User_Data

An optional parameter that you can specify to enter data about the URL. If this parameter is not completed, the User_Datadefaults to INITCNFG.

After you complete the information and close the window, assign the HTTP URL Add action to the destination managed system that is associated with the agent. Monitoring begins immediately for the new URL. The URL is also added to the URLs file so that it continues to be monitored across agent restarts.

A corresponding Take Action option is named HTTP URL Remove. Use the HTTP URL Remove action to immediately stop monitoring for a particular URL. The removed URL is also deleted from the URLs file. The URL Remove window requests only the URL and User_Data values. The URL and User_Data values must match the values that are seen in the Tivoli Enterprise Portal or the Remove action fails. For example, if you omitted the http:// from the URL field of the Add action, you must include it in the URL field of the Remove action. If you did not specify User_Data, specify INITCNFG as seen in the Tivoli Enterprise Portal.

If a URL is added manually to the URLs file, you can delete it with the Take Action. If you delete with the Take Action, specify the values as seen in the Tivoli Enterprise Portal. For example, if you added www.ibm.com to your URLs file, the Tivoli Enterprise Portal displays http://www.ibm.com as the URL and INITCNFG as the User_Data. To remove the URL with the Take Action, use the values that are seen in the Tivoli Enterprise Portal.

After you complete the information and close the window, assign the URL Remove action to the destination managed system that is associated with the agent.


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