hello i need to monitor a web application i'm trying to create the monitor using a web application template. after entering the url and i then changed the http method to POST instead of the GET, then i copy the xml request to the body and entered in the http headers name of Content-Type and value of application/soap+xml the response is an xml the i need to monitr somthing like <returncode>0</returncode> so i mark that in the content mach as contins and the line <returncode>0</returncode> it's not working :) i dont know why :) any help with be a appreciated thank you

Hi, I think you may need to create a script based monitor to achieve this. Please also refer to: Monitor a web service in SCOM 2007 R2 http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/operationsmanagergeneral/thread/10e7798a-bbe6-4798-93d6-2e655fa74973 Hope this helps. Thanks. Nicholas Li TechNet Community Support

hi nicolas thanks for the replay but i viewed those articles and they use the get option while i need to post a xml pattern in my request i sae that the script in the link insdie of you replay http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms535874(v=vs.85).aspx uses a post metod but i didnt see how can i monitor the response string thank you

Shanoos, I think you are on the correct track. We are currently using the web templates to monitor REST and XMLRPC web services. I have even posted a simple how to here. If getting hung up on the response string is your main issue there is a Technet article for that as well. The are two limitations to this method. 1. You are limited to Head, GET and POST. The best information I have from my TAM so far is that other methods are not supported. If someone knows otherwise, please post here. If you have to use other methods, the a script based monitor or rule is your best option. 2. You are obviously limited to simple content matches, or regex . If you need to do complex queries or math/logic functions against the output of the API you will have to use a script. Let me know if either of these links are helpful, or if you have other questions.