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Monitoring Web Pages, Apache, IIS

Traverse can monitor the time to download a Web page, get detailed statistics from the IIS or Apache process, and step through a multi-step Web transaction e-commerce site.

For monitoring statistics from Apache web servers, you must edit its configuration file (httpd.conf) and set ExtendedStatus to ON. You must also uncomment the <Location /server-status> section.

  1. Log in as traverse.`
  2. Navigate to Administration > Devices > Create a Device to add a new device. For an existing device, navigate to Administration > Devices, select the device, and then navigate to Tests > Create Standard Tests.
  3. Select the appropriate device type.
  4. On the Available Test Types page, select the WMI check box for Windows servers to monitor IIS. Also, click Port to monitor Web pages. For Apache, select Apache.
  5. For Apache servers, you must edit the Apache configuration file and allow detailed statistics monitoring.
  6. The system automatically discovers and displays all available applications on the device. Select the tests that you want to monitor click Provision Tests.