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Monitor availability of a WebService

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Hello, my customer needs to monitor the availability of certain Web Services they have published for their costumers to consume. Can this be done using PRTG?

JJPineda

monitor-webservices webservices-monitoring xml-webservice-monitor

Created on Jun 10, 2015 8:44:06 PM



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That depends - you can use the various HTTP sensors to check plain HTTP availability or use the HTTP XML/Rest sensor to check for certain values returned by the webservice :)

Created on Jun 12, 2015 8:11:34 AM by Stephan Linke [Paessler Support]



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Thanks Stephan. I did try the HTTP Transaction Sensor. I tested it against various open Web Services (I googled for "open web services") and the sensor does show them as "UP", so it seems to work. I yet have to have my client try it against their own web service and test what happens when the service is brought down. Thank you very much.

Created on Jun 12, 2015 4:05:02 PM



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Okay, let me know if you need further assistance :)

Created on Jun 15, 2015 9:55:12 AM by Stephan Linke [Paessler Support]




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