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Randy_Johnson_1
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Jul 26, 2011

Monitoring Web Service with POST request ?

Anyone have an example of monitoring a SOAP based web service with a POST request that they'd care to share?

 

 

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  • dubdub's avatar
    dubdub
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    Jul 27, 2011
    Hi Randy,

     

     

    I ended up creating a simple HTTP client for my web service that returned a simple up/down text string, and set up my monitor as a standard HTTP get. I co-located the web service and the web client, just to reduce the risk of too many moving parts and a possible false failure report if the web app environment was down. It's been working well for us.

     

     

    Thanks,

     

    Jen
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    Randy_Johnson_1
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    Jul 27, 2011

    Thanks, Jen.

     

    I was hoping to do more of an 'end to end' type of monitor, by POSTing to the WebService, have the WebService go through it's paces (DB access, etc) and respond.

     

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    Jul 28, 2011
    Understood. This approach inserts an extra layer of complexity, but it was my only real choice due to the fact that the web service needed to invoke a third-party product that I can't install on the LTMs. I have minimal experience with SOAP-based monitors, so hopefully someone else can chime in with some good ideas...

     

     

    Thanks,

     

    Jen
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    Hamish
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    Jul 31, 2011
    How about using an external monitor in perl... The built in perl has a copy of the SOAP::Lite module in it. With that you can write any SOAP query you like for your monitor.

     

     

    H