Manage a Web Server

A standard, basic level of management of web servers is provided by the SilverBack default Web Server - Basic Monitoring Policy Template, which consists of HTTP and HTTPS server up/down and latency thresholds. But what if you require more in-depth monitoring capabilities?

A Monitoring Policy Template is a sample Monitoring Policy - it cannot be applied to a target scope. It is used to create a standard set of monitoring rules that can be built once, and then used in many Monitoring Policies.

SilverBack provides you with another template ... the Web Server - Advanced template ... that contains several Event Monitors and Windows Services Monitors to enhance your web server monitoring service.

Best practice for web server monitoring is to create a Web Server Monitoring Policy and then add both the Web Server - Advanced and Web Server - Basic templates to it. Or, you can add them to an existing policy.

 

See Add a Monitoring Policy for instructions for creating a Monitoring Policy.

Use only the Attributes tab to configure the policy's:

  • Parent Management Domain

  • Name

  • Optional description

  • Visibility to subdomains

  • Enabled/Disabled status

  • Applicability to desktops (in this case, not applicable)

Then, return to this topic to continue with the following procedure to manage your web servers:

 

Adding a Monitoring Policy Template to a Monitoring Policy

  1. From the Monitoring category page click on the Browse Monitoring Policies link to display the Monitoring Policies report.

  1. Click on a Monitoring Policy, and then click on the Edit button to display the Edit Monitoring Policy form.

  1. Click on the Templates tab.

  2. Expand your own Service Provider Management Domain, then expand the All Monitoring Policy Templates selector.

  3. Scroll down until you see the Web Server - Advanced and Web Server - Basic policy templates, then click in their corresponding checkboxes to select them.

  4. Click on the Save button.

 

The display refreshes to the Monitoring Policies Report. Now you will have highly advanced monitoring capabilities for your web server monitoring service.

 

 

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