I'm a budding VB'er and I have been working on a project to easily monitor several of our web servers. It's a bit complicated, but I can't simply monitor SMNP traps for IIS - I have to verify that the page is reachable through a browser.
I would love to be able to design a simple app to display labels of all my servers on one form with a small indicator box to the side of each one that would be green or red indicating if the server's URL can be loaded successfully through a browser or not.
Here's a bit of layman's logic for what I want the real code to do:
1. Launch browser 'invisibly' (or some other method) directed to each of the individual server's URLs.
2. If the page loads successfully (I assume I'll have to look for a unique value on the page), then set the color property of that server's box object to green, else set the color property of that server's box object to red.
3. Refresh every 5 minutes
I should point out that each server also has a unique Keepalive.htm that is kept active.
I hope this makes sense to someone. I certainly appreciate any assistance that I receive !!!
Scott
I would love to be able to design a simple app to display labels of all my servers on one form with a small indicator box to the side of each one that would be green or red indicating if the server's URL can be loaded successfully through a browser or not.
Here's a bit of layman's logic for what I want the real code to do:
1. Launch browser 'invisibly' (or some other method) directed to each of the individual server's URLs.
2. If the page loads successfully (I assume I'll have to look for a unique value on the page), then set the color property of that server's box object to green, else set the color property of that server's box object to red.
3. Refresh every 5 minutes
I should point out that each server also has a unique Keepalive.htm that is kept active.
I hope this makes sense to someone. I certainly appreciate any assistance that I receive !!!
Scott