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Subrun
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Jan 07, 2019

Send and Receive String Explanation in a Http Monitor

Hello   1---   I see for a http monitor below is the Send String Configured but at Receive String field nothing is written/blank.   GET /index.html HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: host.domain.com\r\nCo...
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Rico_368208
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Jan 07, 2019

Subrun,

 

  1. A blank receive string means that the HTTP monitor will mark its resource as UP if any response is received. A receive string is mainly used to parse the response and check that the proper resource is responding.

     

  2. Changing the '/index.html' will change what resource that the request is looking for. A request with '/index.html' will attempt to return the contents of the 'index.html' file on the server the request was send to. If a GET request specified '/example.html' instead of '/index.html', it would attempt to return the contents of the 'example.html' file.

     

Here and here is some more documentation about HTTP monitors.