WPM Player Proxy
Has anyone been successful in setting up their WPM Players to call back to the WPM Server via proxy? I'm not a proxy maven, but I'm having a devil of a time to get WPM Players to communicate with our...
View ArticleWeb Form Default Not Clearing
Has anyone had the problem with an HTML form that has a default entry in it that when the field is clicked on it goes blank so you can enter a value. Then when I enter the value while recording it...
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Hello Philip,have you tried XY recording mode? Some JS frameworks are not handled properly by WPM so they sometimes don't "see" all the actions WPM does. This look like this, the form does not see...
View ArticleHow do you check broken links/images on your website?
Hi Guys, Doing my research and could not find if WPM can automatically check all links and images are working on a particular website. I have found plenty of online tools though, but I was just...
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will Pingdom report on broken/dead links?
View ArticleRe: How do you check broken links/images on your website?
I use Screaming Frog SEO Spider for this task. While it does not integrate with SolarWinds I like the detail it provides Darragh https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/
View ArticleIssue with WPM on some players - Same transaction works fine on other players.
Hi All, I am having an issue with one of my WPM transactions not working properly. Unfortunately I'm not sure what could be causing it. The same transaction works fine on some of my other players but...
View ArticleRe: WPM Player Proxy
Update--anyone is curious... I opened a support case. I sent them the usual array of diagnostics and packet captures. Support then asked me to make sure that 17782 was open on the player. I was...
View ArticleRe: How do you check broken links/images on your website?
WPM is not capable of doing this automatically. You can of course do this in WPM in a very tedious recording, but probably not your cup of tea . Never used this SAM Component type myself, but there is...
View ArticleRe: How do you check broken links/images on your website?
Well, doesn't looks like SAM's Web Link Monitor will enumerate and check all links on page automatically . I think something like Frog Spider as suggested by Darragh or any other similar online...
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Hi Alex, Can you keep me posted if you find out how to integrate this please?
View ArticleRe: How do you check broken links/images on your website?
Ye, sure. This is upcoming on a horizon for us - I will update this post with solution later (in a couple month from now probably)
View ArticleRe: How do you check broken links/images on your website?
You can use alert set on "Step request" to detect broken images at least. WPM collects all requests made by the page during load and stored statistics including response code. If there is an image with...
View ArticleRe: Web Form Default Not Clearing
What I've found helps with those default entries is to put a little pause in before and after that step. I think sometimes the WPM playback is "too quick" for the forms, and the pauses help it process...
View ArticleRe: WPM tab - There was an error retrieving data from SolarWinds Information...
I am experiencing this too, on the second step of one of the transactions.Orion Platform 2016.1.5300, WPM 2.2.1, IPAM 4.3.2, DPA 10.0.1, QoE 2.1.0, IVIM 2.1.2, SAM 6.2.4 Time: 08/15/2016...
View ArticleHow to determine WHO setup a Monitor?
Hey all, Inheriting a fairly large solarwinds implementation. I was curious what is the best way to know what user setup a particular monitor? We are seeing groups set things up but not responding...
View ArticleWPM Work Agent Password Override
We are having issues successfully playing transactions in the player under local worker users SEUM-USER-1 through SEUM-USER-7 that use soft certs.We believe we need to install the soft certs to the...
View ArticleRe: WPM Work Agent Password Override
Hello,you should not set password via mmc. If you set password via config file and workerUserPasswordOverride, delete AgentSettings.dat file and restart player, it will recreate accounts itself. After...
View ArticleRe: How to determine WHO setup a Monitor?
Unless the user was using their credentials for the monitor, I might not be likely to tell who set it up.
View Articlewpm error recording
I'm recording a transaction on an application that returns a JQuery that is used to construct a dynamic form, but WPM does not recognize the object that JQuery returns.
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