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Text Matching limitations on a prepopulated from

June 16, 2014, 3:28 am
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Hi All

 

we have a web form that a customer would popluate with information and then this form is submitted and the customer is redirected to a new page that is then prepopulated with information from the inputs made by the user on the previous page.

 

All of this population of pages works without any issues, but we want to use WPM to verify this is occouring corrctly.  The page in question is a jsp page and the data is within boxes.  Some of the boxes work OK and text is found on the page, other checks don't work, specifically for any numeric values or email addresses.

 

I'm not sure if this is a function of the webpages that WPM cannot work with or if it is WPM itself that cannot work.

 

Any help would be appreciated as this is a piece of project work I need to get passed off

 

Regards

Simon

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Issues monitoring site that uses ADFS authentication

June 17, 2014, 2:06 pm
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One of our websites was just moved to ADFS authentication and I am trying to update our WPM transaction for it and having some issues.  I hit the URL and WPM prompts me for the Account and Password for the account and I enter it.  Instead of redirecting to the application's page as it should (I tested this in a standalone IE window on this WPM agent server) it throws up a generic IE "This program cannot display the webpage".  Has anyone seen anything similar to this and how to get it to accept the credentials and redirect/login as it should?

 

Some more information.....

I dug a little bit more and noticed that WPM is not recording the first URL that I enter.  It seems to be skipping the first URL and only capturing the first redirect and therefore skipping the page that prompts for the user name and password so when I play it back it fails.  Is there anyway to force a URL into a step ahead of the redirect that it captures?

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Re: Issues monitoring site that uses ADFS authentication

June 18, 2014, 1:50 am
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Re: Issues monitoring site that uses ADFS authentication

June 18, 2014, 7:06 am
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Transaction does not fully run if one step fails

June 18, 2014, 1:17 pm
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I've looked all over the forums and couldn't find an answer on this issue.  We are monitoring a custom status page that checks certain services on a server.  I built a transaction that clicks on nine different links on that page.  After each click of a link on the status page I navigate back to the status page URL.  If the service is up, the link does not go anywhere.  If the service is down, the link takes you to another page stating the service is down.

 

This works OK unless I have multiple services down.  The transaction stops when it meets a link that goes to another page.  the rest of the steps show 'Unknown'.  I thought entering the status' URL after each click would continue the transaction, alas, it does not. Is getting the transaction to monitor all links and report the ones that redirect to another page even possible?  If not, is there a way to do this?

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Re: Transaction does not fully run if one step fails

June 19, 2014, 12:54 am
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Accessing RawHtml for reporting

June 19, 2014, 8:13 am
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Since regular expressions aren't supported with tests, I'm having to directly query the database to access the RawHtml of a step to pull needed data.

I'm doing it using this query:   SELECT TransactionStepId, RawHtml FROM Orion.SEUM.TransactionStepLargeData WHERE TransactionStepId = 2242

 

This seems to work "sometimes", but more often than not, I'm getting no data at all returned.    I was thinking, maybe it was due to the row being written at the same time as the query is running.  But I've tried moving the timing around and the test itself is only running every 5 minutes, yet I still get nothing returned more often than not.

 

This is an example of what I am getting returned most times.  Notice the <c1> field where the html should be contained.

 

<s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"><s:Header><log xmlns="http://schemas.solarwinds.com/2007/08/informationservice"/></s:Header><s:Body><QueryXmlResponse xmlns="http://schemas.solarwinds.com/2007/08/informationservice"><QueryXmlResult><queryResult xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><template><resultset><column name="TransactionStepId" type="Int32" ordinal="0"/><column name="RawHtml" type="String" ordinal="1"/></resultset></template><data><row><c0>2242</c0><c1/></row></data></queryResult></QueryXmlResult></QueryXmlResponse></s:Body></s:Envelope>

 

Yet I never seem to have an issue viewing the raw html through the gui via the "view HTML" link.

 

Any help here would be appreciated.    I did try using StepResponseTimeLargeData table also, but every row in that one seems to have nothing for RawHtml.

 

 

 

 

Good example of what I'm dealing with just occurred.   Got this response while working on this post:

 

SELECT TransactionStepId, RawHtml FROM Orion.SEUM.TransactionStepLargeData WHERE TransactionStepId = 2242

<s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"><s:Header><log xmlns="http://schemas.solarwinds.com/2007/08/informationservice"/></s:Header><s:Body><QueryXmlResponse xmlns="http://schemas.solarwinds.com/2007/08/informationservice"><QueryXmlResult><queryResult xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><template><resultset><column name="TransactionStepId" type="Int32" ordinal="0"/><column name="RawHtml" type="String" ordinal="1"/></resultset></template><data><row><c0>2242</c0><c1/></row></data></queryResult></QueryXmlResult></QueryXmlResponse></s:Body></s:Envelope>

 

 

After posting, I tried again, and this time I got the expected result...

 

SELECT TransactionStepId, RawHtml FROM Orion.SEUM.TransactionStepLargeData WHERE TransactionStepId = 2242

<s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"><s:Header><log xmlns="http://schemas.solarwinds.com/2007/08/informationservice"/></s:Header><s:Body><QueryXmlResponse xmlns="http://schemas.solarwinds.com/2007/08/informationservice"><QueryXmlResult><queryResult xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><template><resultset><column name="TransactionStepId" type="Int32" ordinal="0"/><column name="RawHtml" type="String" ordinal="1"/></resultset></template><data><row><c0>2242</c0><c1>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;TITLE&gt;TOAST.net Performance Results&lt;/TITLE&gt;&lt;LINK rel=stylesheet type=text/css href="styles/performance.css"&gt;

&lt;META content=en-us http-equiv=Content-Language&gt;

&lt;META content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" http-equiv=Content-Type&gt;

&lt;META name=GENERATOR content="Microsoft FrontPage 12.0"&gt;

&lt;META name=ProgId content=FrontPage.Editor.Document&gt;

&lt;META name=description content="Internet Bandwidth Performance Test"&gt;

&lt;META name=keywords content="T1, T1 service, Broadband, Broadb........

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Share your opinion: Pingdom and WPM, how they can benefit from each other?

June 20, 2014, 7:50 am
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Many of you did notice recent exciting news, that we have a new family member - Pingdom joins SolarWinds!

 

Pingdom - a leader in cloud based web monitoring is great for measuring customer experience for customer-faced websites, provides end user experience from different geos and browsers, it's easy to start with abilities like RUM, transaction scripting and extensive mobile support. You may be asking about future of Website monitoring in Solarwinds and that is absolutely right question. WPM is a powerful synthetic monitoring solution, great for behind the firewall web application monitoring, with on premise or Amazon cloud options. However what do you think should be future of these two products? How would like to see these two be integrated if at all? What value you would like to get from this marriage?

 

Thinking about same and different use-cases for Pingdom and WPM: are you using WPM for monitoring internal or external sites (or both)? How many you have of each? What is in Pingdom, that would make your life easier? Are you using some other monitoring solution with WPM, which is actually a complement like Pingdom?

 

Share your opinion and ask more questions. We want to know!

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Re: Share your opinion: Pingdom and WPM, how they can benefit from each other?

June 20, 2014, 8:19 am
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Congrats on the purchase , pingdom is pretty good buy for you guys , it needs some work and a lot of people where not as happy with the new UI when they rolled out so hopefully you can get that resolved. the pricing model is confusing and should e a little more straight forward like site 24/7

 

I use Site 24/7 for my URL availability monitoring and reporting suggested in the WPM request enhancements that you guys actually look at doing that and boom you bought pingdom..

 

We have a small foot print of WPM but will not be renewing support on the product due to the lack of movement and updates , and with the promise of  something coming is not enough for me to go to my manager and increase our foot print for transaction based monitoring. We have decided to move to new relic to do more in-depth transaction monitoring.

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Re: Share your opinion: Pingdom and WPM, how they can benefit from each other?

June 20, 2014, 11:29 am
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Pingdom has possibilities...like WPM it fills a niche and helps you to measure service availability since in todays HA (Highly Available) world a single server or 2 being down may not be a critical thing with multiple servers sharing the load behind load balancers. WPM is a great point solution to run internal monitoring from remote branches to gauge application/service availability or even external sites.  But from the other customer facing services via the internet, WPM is not really the tool to provide a good view from the perspective of the general consumer since they can be anywhere in the country.  While Pingdom doesn't seem to have the granularity of WPM it does interleave in some areas where WPM is not as capable.  Now with that said, WPM is rather long in tooth due to not having any real updates in like 18 months....support has been dismal.  If WPM is updated and better supported, Pingdom can and should be a good extension to the tool as it gives you capabilities that are not as flexible with WPM due to the having to place hardware, etc...

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Re: WPM 2.1.0 Beta - Call for Beta Testers

June 23, 2014, 4:30 am
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We are still looking for testers, feedback and ideas!

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Re: Transaction does not fully run if one step fails

June 23, 2014, 6:04 am
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Hi Shon, I contacted you over email as this feature is something we are working on and is available in Beta so it would be great to get your feedback on it. Peter

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Re: Share your opinion: Pingdom and WPM, how they can benefit from each other?

June 26, 2014, 10:19 am
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Thanks for sharing details. Is the need for in-depth code-level monitoring something new in your organization? Do you see WPM and Pingdom complementary or comparable to New Relic? I understand you lack development (and we have a Beta available and are working on new release), but is there something in WPM missing feature-wise?

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Re: Share your opinion: Pingdom and WPM, how they can benefit from each other?

June 26, 2014, 10:27 am
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Thanks for ideas Jon. Reading your post I understand that in general you see Pingdom and WPM cover different use-cases. WPM is great for internal web applications, maybe from different branches. Pingdom is strong is external public-faced applications. Do you see any touching points, where WPM and Pingdom can complement each other, where together they can provide new value?

 

What about ability to monitor your external sites from Amazon cloud? How do you see this comparing to Pingdom abilities?

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Re: Alert Suppression

June 27, 2014, 2:38 pm
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Thank goodness I found this post. The alert suppression wasn't working for me until I moved it under the trigger.

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Share your opinion: Pingdom and WPM, how they can benefit from each other?

June 20, 2014, 7:50 am
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Many of you did notice recent exciting news, that we have a new family member - Pingdom joins SolarWinds!

 

Pingdom - a leader in cloud based web monitoring is great for measuring customer experience for customer-faced websites, provides end user experience from different geos and browsers, it's easy to start with abilities like RUM, transaction scripting and extensive mobile support. You may be asking about future of Website monitoring in Solarwinds and that is absolutely right question. WPM is a powerful synthetic monitoring solution, great for behind the firewall web application monitoring, with on premise or Amazon cloud options. However what do you think should be future of these two products? How would like to see these two be integrated if at all? What value you would like to get from this marriage?

 

Thinking about same and different use-cases for Pingdom and WPM: are you using WPM for monitoring internal or external sites (or both)? How many you have of each? What is in Pingdom, that would make your life easier? Are you using some other monitoring solution with WPM, which is actually a complement like Pingdom?

 

Share your opinion and ask more questions. We want to know!

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Re: Share your opinion: Pingdom and WPM, how they can benefit from each other?

June 20, 2014, 8:19 am
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Congrats on the purchase , pingdom is pretty good buy for you guys , it needs some work and a lot of people where not as happy with the new UI when they rolled out so hopefully you can get that resolved. the pricing model is confusing and should e a little more straight forward like site 24/7

 

I use Site 24/7 for my URL availability monitoring and reporting suggested in the WPM request enhancements that you guys actually look at doing that and boom you bought pingdom..

 

We have a small foot print of WPM but will not be renewing support on the product due to the lack of movement and updates , and with the promise of  something coming is not enough for me to go to my manager and increase our foot print for transaction based monitoring. We have decided to move to new relic to do more in-depth transaction monitoring.

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Re: Share your opinion: Pingdom and WPM, how they can benefit from each other?

June 20, 2014, 11:29 am
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Pingdom has possibilities...like WPM it fills a niche and helps you to measure service availability since in todays HA (Highly Available) world a single server or 2 being down may not be a critical thing with multiple servers sharing the load behind load balancers. WPM is a great point solution to run internal monitoring from remote branches to gauge application/service availability or even external sites.  But from the other customer facing services via the internet, WPM is not really the tool to provide a good view from the perspective of the general consumer since they can be anywhere in the country.  While Pingdom doesn't seem to have the granularity of WPM it does interleave in some areas where WPM is not as capable.  Now with that said, WPM is rather long in tooth due to not having any real updates in like 18 months....support has been dismal.  If WPM is updated and better supported, Pingdom can and should be a good extension to the tool as it gives you capabilities that are not as flexible with WPM due to the having to place hardware, etc...

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Re: WPM 2.1.0 Beta - Call for Beta Testers

June 23, 2014, 4:30 am
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We are still looking for testers, feedback and ideas!

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Re: Transaction does not fully run if one step fails

June 23, 2014, 6:04 am
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Hi Shon, I contacted you over email as this feature is something we are working on and is available in Beta so it would be great to get your feedback on it. Peter

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