Can anyone tell me if it's possible to monitor a web service on a server using SCOM R2? And also how to do it? Is there possible an easy guide for SCOM newbie? /Henrik

Hi Henrik, No problem: http://scug.be/blogs/scom/archive/2008/10/19/create-a-web-application-monitor-in-opsmgr.aspx http://opsmgrunleashed.wordpress.com/2007/07/14/opsmgr-by-example-monitoring-web-applications/ http://sharepointnotes.wordpress.com/2008/03/17/web-application-monitoring-with-system-center-operations-manager/ Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

and if you are only looking to monitoring the Windows Service that belongs to IIS you can pick that one up with a service monitor (using the template is easiest). ALthough its already picked up by the IIS management pack. For the website monitoring (opening an internet explorer and seeing if you get an error or if you get the correct page (and if so in how much time)) is through the links dktoa provided as examples of this.Bob Cornelissen - BICTT (My BICTT Blog) - Microsoft Community Contributor 2011 Recipient

Henrik, what kind of web service are going to monitor? SOAP or REST? for REST you may try to utilize WebApplication template(not sure), for SOAP one you need to script around MSXML2.xmlhttp object.

Henrik, what kind of web service are going to monitor? SOAP or REST? for REST you may try to utilize WebApplication template(not sure), for SOAP one you need to script around MSXML2.xmlhttp object.

Hi, Could you please let us know more information about your requirements? How you would like the web service? For monitoring web application, please refer to: How to Create a Web Application Monitor http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb381370.aspx Hope this helps. Thanks. Nicholas Li - MSFT Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

Hi Pavel and thanks for your feedback. I would like to use SOAP. Does that mean that I can use any existing Management Pack? I don't know what "MSXML2.xmlhttp object" is or where to find it. What I would like to do (the big picture) is to test shoot on a bunch of web services to test the whole chain and monitor the response time. Maby get a graph of it aswell. Is that possible with SCOM?

Hi Pavel and thanks for your feedback. I would like to use SOAP. Does that mean that I can use any existing Management Pack? I don't know what "MSXML2.xmlhttp object" is or where to find it. What I would like to do (the big picture) is to test shoot on a bunch of web services to test the whole chain and monitor the response time. Maby get a graph of it aswell. Is that possible with SCOM?

AFAR there are no free Management Packs for SOAP web services monitoring. you need to author your own pack using powershell around COM object 'MSXML2.xmlhttp'. google around for examples. alternative way is to design WebService monitoring on WebService development stage. WebService developers expose simple HTTP text status/statistics pages which can be easily monitored through SCOM.

AFAR there are no free Management Packs for SOAP web services monitoring. you need to author your own pack using powershell around COM object 'MSXML2.xmlhttp'. google around for examples. alternative way is to design WebService monitoring on WebService development stage. WebService developers expose simple HTTP text status/statistics pages which can be easily monitored through SCOM.

Hi, I think what Pavel means is to create a monitor based on a script with the MSXML2.xmlhttp object. For details, please refer to: URL Script Monitor http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/operationsmanagermgmtpacks/thread/8d02d275-6f95-4aaf-95b0-c01582d76c1f How Can I Tell Whether a Web Page is Accessible? http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2005/02/22/how-can-i-tell-whether-a-web-page-is-accessible.aspx XMLHttpRequest Object http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms535874(v=vs.85).aspx Hope this helps. Thanks. Nicholas Li - MSFT Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

Hi, I think what Pavel means is to create a monitor based on a script with the MSXML2.xmlhttp object. For details, please refer to: URL Script Monitor http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/operationsmanagermgmtpacks/thread/8d02d275-6f95-4aaf-95b0-c01582d76c1f How Can I Tell Whether a Web Page is Accessible? http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2005/02/22/how-can-i-tell-whether-a-web-page-is-accessible.aspx XMLHttpRequest Object http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms535874(v=vs.85).aspx Hope this helps. Thanks. Nicholas Li - MSFT Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

alternative way is to design WebService monitoring on WebService development stage. WebService developers expose simple HTTP text status/statistics pages which can be easily monitored through SCOM. Nice tip! In case there isn't such a status page: Could the webapplication monitoring template be used to post a soap message using the "Http POST method" in conjunction with the "content match" field to match content? Any experience?