HTTP Transaction Sensor

This sensor is a complement to the basic HTTP sensor and the HTTP advanced sensor. It can monitor a sequence of up to 10 URLs for availability and turn around time.

The most common use for a transaction sensor is to monitor the shopping process on a webpage, i.e. visiting the homepage, selecting a product, putting it into the shopping cart, and checking out. For this process you should define a maximum time for each request and for the whole sequence to complete.

Please see the two other HTTP sensors for the common parameters and other information. Parameters include:

·      Timeout—If the complete transaction (i.e. completing all URLs you enter below) takes longer than this value the request is aborted and you get an error message. If two consecutive requests will fail (for whatever reason) the sensor enters a 'Down' state.

·      Warning-Level—If the complete transaction (i.e. completing all URLs you enter below) takes longer than this value the sensor enters a 'Warning' state.

·      Single URL Timeout—If the reply of a single transaction step (i.e. one URL) takes longer than this value the request is aborted and you get an error message.

·      Use Cookies—Enable this option if cookies received from the server should be resent for subsequent requests.

·      Transaction URL #1 to #10—Enter the URLs of the sequence you want to monitor

Note 2: You can set the useragent string by setting the following registry key (you may need to create a new string value “useragent”):

Localmachine\Software\Paessler\IPCheck\useragent

More:

What it means when the HTTP Transaction Sensor is up

What it means when the HTTP Transaction Sensor is down