SCOM 2016 URLGenie MP

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SCOM 2016 URLGenie MP

Chan, Johnny 21

Hi,

I am wondering if anyone used the URLGenie management pack below?

https://monitoringguys.com/2015/05/04/urlgenie-management-pack-for-scom-an-easy-powerful-solution-for-bulk-website-monitoring/![21643-image.png][1]

I try to setup and monitor few URL for testing, but I am getting the error below.

Please advise if you know any step I may missed.

Thank you!

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Answer 1

Leon Laude 86,221

Hi @Chan, Johnny ,

The URLGenie Status Code Monitor auto targets all standard URLs and will alert if an endpoint returns a status code beyond the specified threshold.

What threshold have you specified?
Or what is it you are looking to achieve?

Based on my tests the URLGenie management pack works as it should, I haven't had any issues.

You can read more about each monitors, discoveries, rules, tasks etc in the URLGenie management pack guide, which comes in the downloadable zip-file (URLGenie MP Guide.docx).

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Best regards,
Leon

Chan, Johnny 21 Reputation points

2020-09-01T12:30:37.133+00:00

Hi Leon,

Thank you for your reply.

I did not specified any threshold, I only used all the default setting. For now, I only want to test if the URL page can be load or not (online or offline).

Please let me know if you see any problem.

Thank you!
Crystal-MSFT 54,326 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2020-09-02T08:09:41.577+00:00

Based on my test, the URL monitoring working well in my lab:

From the state change events you provided, it seems the state changes between healthy and critical. Could you let us know if we can access the website when the state is critical?
Chan, Johnny 21 Reputation points

2020-09-02T13:55:14.717+00:00

Yes, I am able to access the website even the state is critical. Do we need to create any rules at firewall?
Crystal-MSFT 54,326 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2020-09-03T03:15:05.547+00:00

For the rules on the firewall, I didn't find it mentioned in the URLGenie MP document. From the picture you provided, it seems the website is accessible. Could you confirm what is the Watch node we set? Was the website test performed on the watch node?
Kam Wai Chan 221 Reputation points

2020-09-03T13:40:38.807+00:00

Yes, I use the management server as the watch node and that's the server access the website.
Kam Wai Chan 221 Reputation points

2020-09-03T14:16:53.657+00:00

Found the issue that SCOM server was setup proxy connection. After resetting it, everything works.

CMD -> netsh winhttp show proxy (Should show Direct access)

Reset the proxy setting

CMD -> netsh winhttp reset proxy

Thank you!
Crystal-MSFT 54,326 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2020-09-04T02:49:43.763+00:00

@JohnnyChan-4955, Thanks for the sharing. I am glad to hear it is working well now. Congratulations! To help others who faced the same issue easy find the solution, I will modify my previous reply in answer to summary our issue.

Thanks again for your time.
Kam Wai Chan 221 Reputation points

2020-09-04T13:00:16.433+00:00

Thank you!

Now I have some question when I add a new NTLM website to monitor. Do you know if we can use the same basic authorize account to monitor more than 1 NTLM URL? I try added the same user under the URLGenie Standard Monitor Profile to monitor a new URL. It will remove my previous NTLM URL monitor. Do you have the steps how to add a new NTLM URL? Can we use the same user account for multi NTLM URL?

Please advise.
Crystal-MSFT 54,326 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2020-09-07T05:40:52.337+00:00

@JohnnyChan-4955 Would like to confirm if we use the same steps under "Use NTLM Authentication" steps in the URLGenie MP guide? Did we enter <authuser>and <authenticationscheme> in config fiel for every URl that need NTLM?

Answer 2

Crystal-MSFT 54,326 Microsoft External Staff

Here is a summary for our issue:

Issue Definition:

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URLGenie management pack monitor URL with alert "HTTP Request Error:StatusCode Exceeded Threshold"

Resolution:

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SCOM server setup proxy connection. After resetting it, everything works.
netsh winhttp show proxy (Show Direct access)
netsh winhttp reset proxy (Reset the proxy setting)

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