February 2018
Beginner
290 pages
7h 28m
English
With the TCP and UDP monitoring, we went one step further than the ICMP monitoring; however, if the application is hung, the TCP port might be open, but the application is not picking up data from the memory buffer.
In order to verify that the application itself may be working, we use enhanced monitoring, where the application is asked to do perform a certain task and then the response is checked to see whether everything matches, and then it is considered up or down.
As an example, let's assume we are monitoring the web server, and we create a page called testmonitor.html with the content Webserver is UP. The enhanced monitor will perform an HTTP GET in order to get the page, and can validate the content.
Read now
Unlock full access