[Xymon] Can XYMON having feature to check "User Experience".

[Ralph Mitchell]

You can get similar results using curl:

     X=`curl -s -S -L -w '%{time_total}' -o /dev/null http://www.yahoo.com`

$X will be set to the total time taken to download the webpage.  Obviously
the output can be directed to an actual file instead of /dev/null.  Curl can
also handle cookies and form posts, as well as simple page fetches.  I've
used it very effectively to login to a variety of sites and navigate to a
certain point to check availability of pages.

Note that neither Lynx nor curl will be downloading images, javascript, java
apps, etc, which will tend to skew your graphs somewhat.

Ralph Mitchell


On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 11:39 AM, White, Bruce <bewhite at fellowes.com> wrote:

>  I wrote a script which uses the text based Lynx web browser and the Linux
> time command to check how on it takes a web app to respond to downloading
> the initial page.  I set up a custom graph to graph the results and we can
> now trend when web response is slower on our network.  Below is the script.
> I had to add a space between h and ttp in the lynx command line so my mail
> client wouldn’t try to make it a link.
>
>
>
>            ……Bruce
>
>
>
> #!/bin/ksh
>
> #
>
> ###################################################################
>
> # webchk.sh
>
> #
>
> # Xymon add on script to test access to a web site via the fellowes
>
> # proxy server.   This is done using the lynx text based web  browser.
>
> #
>
> ###################################################################
>
> #
>
> ###################################################################
>
> #
>
> #
>
>
>
> TEST="webchk"
>
>
>
> #
>
> # set up parameters
>
> #
>
> LYNXCMD="/usr/bin/lynx"
>
> OUTFILE="$BBTMP/web.out.$$"
>
> TMPFILE="$BBTMP/chkweb.tmp.$$"
>
> LOGFILE="/xymon/log/webchk.log"
>
> http_proxy="http://proxy01";export http_proxy typeset -i HSECS=0 # # do
> the tests #
>
> WEBSITE=$1
>
> COLOR="green"
>
> LINE=""
>
>
>
> if [ "$#" = "1" ];then
>
>    WEBSITE=$1
>
> else
>
>    echo "You must pass a website to be checked."
>
>    echo "usage web.sh <website>"
>
>    exit 1
>
> fi
>
>
>
> /usr/bin/time -p -o ${TMPFILE} ${LYNXCMD} -dump h ttp://${WEBSITE} >
> ${OUTFILE} 2>>${LOGFILE} if [ "$?" = "0" ];then
>
>    if [ -s "${OUTFILE}" ];then
>
>       LINE="
>
> &green $WEBSITE - Connection OK"
>
>    else
>
>       COLOR="red"
>
>       LINE="
>
> &red $WEBSITE - Connection Failed"
>
>    fi
>
> else
>
>    COLOR="red"
>
>    LINE="
>
> &red $WEBSITE - Connection Failed"
>
> fi
>
> if [ -s "${TMPFILE}" ];then
>
>    SECS=`grep "real" ${TMPFILE}|awk '{print $2}' -`
>
>    let HSECS=$SECS*100
>
> else
>
>    SECS="unknown"
>
> fi
>
> STATUS="
>
>
>
>      Time to get page: $SECS"
>
> $BB $BBDISP "status ${WEBSITE}.${TEST} $COLOR  `date` $LINE $STATUS"
>
>
>
> if [ -f "$OUTFILE" ];then
>
>    $RM $OUTFILE
>
> fi
>
> exit 0
>
>
>
>
>
>
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>
>
>
>
>
>
>  *Bruce White*
>
>  Senior Enterprise Systems Engineer | Phone: 630-671-5169 | Fax:
> 630-893-1648 | bewhite at fellowes.com | www.fellowes.com
>
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>
> *From:* xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] *On
> Behalf Of *Jayanta Kundu
> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 03, 2011 9:27 AM
> *To:* xymon at xymon.com
> *Subject:* [Xymon] Can XYMON having feature to check "User Experience".
>
>
>
> Hi All,
>
>
>
> Can XYMON having feature to check "User Experience".
>
> We are having different web based application, running in LINUX/Solaris
> server.
>
> Some time We observed all applications are showing running state but if we
> click any icon(inside our own application) the response time is too
> long/some-time not get the result also.
>
> Kindly let me know any feature is available in XYMON to track it out.
>
>
>
> With Thanks & Regards,
>
> Jayanta.
>
>
>
>
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