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Monitor value on a html site

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Is it possible to monitor one Value of a website and display it as a channel? I already tried HTTP Advanced, but it only gives me the possibility it value is not found or is found. I also tried XML/REST but I cannot find a node to monitor.

Can someone help?

html value website

Created on Jun 16, 2015 10:06:25 PM



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Not really, but it should work using Invoke-Webrequest and the following regex: 

<td[^>]*>(\d+.\(\d+\))<\/td>

It will extract "225 (225)". Should be easy with PowerShell :)

Created on Jun 17, 2015 9:54:55 AM by Stephan Linke [Paessler Support]



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This can be done with the HTTP Content Sensor, but the value
has to be within brackets, for example [21].

Created on Jun 17, 2015 8:32:17 AM by Stephan Linke [Paessler Support]

Last change on Jun 17, 2015 8:32:35 AM by Stephan Linke [Paessler Support]



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Okay, the value doesn't have values in Brackets. So do I need a custom script to monitor the values?

The html Code looks like this:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/SCHEMA/xhtml11.xsd"
	xml:lang="en">
  <head>
    <title>Attensity Respond - Server Administration</title>
    <link href="favicon.ico" rel="SHORTCUT ICON">
    <link type="text/css" href="xm.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <meta content="0" http-equiv="Expires">
    <meta content="no-cache" http-equiv="Pragma">
    <meta content="no-cache" http-equiv="Cache-Control">
    <script src="scripts.js"></script>
  </head>

  <body>
    <div class="title">
      &nbsp;Server Verwaltung
    </div>

    <div class="section">
      <div class="toolbar">
        <h2>Server-Informationen</h2>
      </div>
      <table>
      
      <tr>
        <td class="nowrap"><span class="verdana_11_bold">Anwendung:</span></td>
        <td width="50%">Attensity Respond Server</td>
        <td class="nowrap"><span class="verdana_11_bold">Freier Speicher:</span></td>
        <td width="50%">528.702.968 bytes</td>
      </tr>
      <tr valign="top">
        <td class="nowrap"><span class="verdana_11_bold">Versionsnummer:</span></td>
        <td>6.4.0.14</td>
        <td class="nowrap"><span class="verdana_11_bold">Speicher gesamt:</span></td>
        <td>1.877.999.616 bytes</td>
      </tr>
      <tr valign="top">
        <td class="nowrap"><span class="verdana_11_bold">Interne Revisionsnummer:</span></td>
        <td>1006</td>
        <td class="nowrap"><span class="verdana_11_bold">Entstehungsdatum:</span></td>
        <td>26.11.2014 10:13:13</td>
      </tr>
       <tr valign="top">
        <td class="nowrap"><span class="verdana_11_bold">Server-Start (Betriebszeit):</span></td>
        <td width="50%" class="nowrap">27.05.2015 14:07:43 (20  d)</td>
        <td class="nowrap"><span class="verdana_11_bold">Angemeldete Benutzer (Maximum):</span></td>
        <td width="50%" class="nowrap">225 (225)</td>
      </tr>
      <tr valign="top" align="left">
        <td class="nowrap" colspan="4"><span class="verdana_14">Basismedien:</span></td>
      </tr>
      <tr valign="top">
        <td class="nowrap"><span class="verdana_11_bold">Start des Accountings:</span></td>
        <td>29.08.2014</td>
        <td class="nowrap"><span class="verdana_11_bold">Saldo zu Beginn:</span></td>
        <td>-1</td>
      </tr>
      <tr valign="top">
        <td class="nowrap"><span class="verdana_11_bold">Zeitraum [Monate]:</span></td>
        <td>1</td>
        <td class="nowrap"><span class="verdana_11_bold">Aktuelles Saldo:</span></td>
        <td>0</td>
      </tr>
      <tr valign="top" align="left">
        <td class="nowrap" colspan="4"><span class="verdana_14">Social Media:</span></td>
      </tr>
      <tr valign="top">
        <td class="nowrap"><span class="verdana_11_bold">Start des Accountings:</span></td>
        <td>29.08.2014</td>
        <td class="nowrap"><span class="verdana_11_bold">Saldo zu Beginn:</span></td>
        <td>-1</td>
      </tr>
      <tr valign="top">
        <td class="nowrap"><span class="verdana_11_bold">Zeitraum [Monate]:</span></td>
        <td>1</td>
        <td class="nowrap"><span class="verdana_11_bold">Aktuelles Saldo:</span></td>
        <td>0</td>
      </tr>
    </table>
  </div>

What I'd like to monitor is the following Value (Just the value in bold, nothing else): <td class="nowrap"><span class="verdana_11_bold">Angemeldete Benutzer (Maximum):</span></td> <td width="50%" class="nowrap">225 (225)</td>

Kind regards, Florian

Created on Jun 17, 2015 8:40:44 AM

Last change on Jun 17, 2015 8:43:09 AM by Stephan Linke [Paessler Support]



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That's correct, you need a custom script to monitor values like this, since PRTG can only extract text from HTML pages, no numerical values.

Created on Jun 17, 2015 8:44:39 AM by Stephan Linke [Paessler Support]

Last change on Jun 17, 2015 8:44:54 AM by Stephan Linke [Paessler Support]



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Okay. Do you have an example how I could resolve it? Thank you

Created on Jun 17, 2015 9:02:10 AM



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Not really, but it should work using Invoke-Webrequest and the following regex: 

<td[^>]*>(\d+.\(\d+\))<\/td>

It will extract "225 (225)". Should be easy with PowerShell :)

Created on Jun 17, 2015 9:54:55 AM by Stephan Linke [Paessler Support]



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Okay I got it working using webrequest :) Thanks for your help.

Created on Jun 22, 2015 8:11:53 PM



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What sensor do you use? "Invoke-Webrequest" Which parameter of the sensor?

Created on Jul 9, 2017 2:41:19 PM



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I solved the problem thanks. :)

Created on Jul 9, 2017 3:29:17 PM




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