Web Request Analysis

The Studio – Web Request Analysis tool enables you to send HTTP(S) requests and analyze the responses of the Web servers.

What you can do with this tool

Monitoring Studio Express enables you to monitor your web-based applications: send HTTP requests, post forms, parse the HTML page that is returned, etc.

By executing HTTP requests within your Portal environment and analyze the responses sent by the Web servers, Monitoring Studio Express helps you to ensure that end-users actually see what they should see on their browser. You can also search for regular expressions and extract numeric values from an administration Web interface, for example.

The basic steps to execute a Web request analysis are:

1.	Select Studio - Web Request (Simple, HTTP GET) or Studio - Web Request (Post a form, HTTP POST) depending on the type of web request you want to execute

2.	Identify the host, enter connection credentials

3.	Enter the URL to be queried, enter Web server authorization if needed

4.	Enter the expected format of the return output (entire HTTP response, with/without tags etc)

5.	Monitoring Studio Express retrieves the content and displays it in the Return Output parameter

Fine-tune the monitoring by searching for strings or performing numeric value extractions in the return output of the instance…

Parameters

•	Server Connection Status

•	Execution Time

•	HTTP Status Code

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Status

•	Return Output

Details of the parameters and alert conditions are stated in the Reference Guide.