Agents Administration - Tests
 

Default Parameters for WebServiceTest

By continuosly monitoring each operation i.e., application component of a web service that is offered, using the SOAP commands, this test helps administrators identify the availability, response time and response code of the web service and quickly figure out discrepancies if any web service is deemed unavailable. This way, the web services can be kept available round the clock thus helping the users perform their tasks without any difficulty.

This page depicts the default parameters that need to be configured for the WebServiceTest.

  • The TEST PERIOD list box helps the user to decide how often this test needs to be executed.

  • This test emulates a user accessing a specific web service(s) on the target server to determine the availability and responsiveness of the server. To enable this emulation, you need to configure the test with the URL of the web service that it should access. Specify this URL against the WSDL URL parameter. If required, you can even configure multiple WSDL URLs - one each for every web service that the test should attempt to access. If each WSDL URL configured requires special permissions for logging in, then, you need to configure the test with separate credentials for logging into every WSDL URL. Likewise, you need to provide instructions to the test on how to validate the content returned by every WSDL URL, and also set an encoding format for each WSDL URL. To enable administrators to easily configure the above per WSDL URL, eG Enterprise provides a special interface. To access this interface, click on the encircled ‘+’ button alongside the URL text box in the test configuration page. Alternatively, you can even click on the encircled ‘+’ button adjacent to the WSDL URL parameter in the test configuration page. To know how to use this special interface, click here.

  • Once the WSDL URL(s) are specified, the operations that are offered by the web services and those that are to be monitored have to be configured. To select the required operations for monitoring, eG Enterprise provides a special interface. TO access this interface, click on the encircled ‘+’ button alongside the OPERATIONS text box in the test configuration page. Alternatively, you can even click on the encircled ‘+’ button adjacent to the OPERATIONS parameter in the test configuration page. To know how to use this special interface, click here.

  • In the TIMEOUT text box, specify the maximum duration (in seconds) for which the test will wait for a response from the server. The default timeout period is 30 seconds.

  • Once the necessary values have been provided, clicking on the UPDATE button will register the changes made.

When changing default configurations of tests, the values with “$” indicate variables that will be replaced by the eG system according to the specific server being managed - for instance, $hostName is the host/nickname of the target host, $port is the port number of the server being monitored. E.g., for a server xyz:80, $hostName will be changed automatically by the eG manager to “xyz” and $port will be changed to “80” when configuring a test.