NAgios XI webinject edit option

[sujitt]

I created a Web transaction monitor using the wizard. after i created it I wanted to make some corrections to the webinject xml. I could find a way to edit using XI. Is there a way I can edit this file without logging into the linux file system? We do not allow users to login to the linux filesystem for management.

[sreinhardt]

After a short bit of testing, I found that if you run through the wizard with the same web address as the original check, it should pull the xml file from the filesystem as previously created. As for non admin users, I don't believe this would be possible without access to the config wizards and access to modify\create checks. Alternatively, you could certainly create a new component to specifically resolve this issue, and would be pretty great!

[sujitt]

Atleast a list of host, Services/URL drop down would be great improvement. It is really painful to setup something for webtransactions.

[sreinhardt]

So you would like nagios to browse the site and give you a list of suggested urls or other items to check for, or you would like to see the transaction wizard show previously configured sessions? I would agree that transactions are not the easiest to do with webinject, and maybe this is a feature we could look into modifying.

I might suggest using Selenium and the checks with that, that we have. It is a much simpler interface, can be configured via browsing the site you wish to monitor and selecting key features to check for, and then exporting in a large assortment of languages.

Integrating Selenium with Nagios XI