Administering an ISP Installation

Using the HTTP Monitoring Tool

You can run the HTTP Monitoring Tool on several servers concurrently, in order to test connectivity and to display the connectivity statistics of the sites in your installation. The database for these Windows-based servers is centralized on a single SQL Server.

The HTTP Monitoring Tool, which emulates the way that users attempt to connect to Web sites, is a multithreaded process that operates according to the parameters and values set in its associated HTTPMon.ini file. These parameters specify the Web sites to be tested, as well as the number of times and frequency to retry a failed connection, before moving on to the next specified site. You can set other parameters that optimize the HTTP Monitoring Tool for your particular installation, including a maximum thread pool count, an output file and directory, a working directory, and so on.