Monitoring web service login

[jpipitone]

We want to monitor a login page on our web sites - I take it the best way to do this is by using the Web Transaction monitoring wizard.

We have login pages that reach out to a 3rd party, which calls a web service. The method name is "GetActivityInfoService"

The URL is similar to:

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http://secure.thirdparty.com/activityinfo/services/GetActivityInfo?wsdl

Using the Web Transaction monitoring wizard, how would the test case look? I do not know if the method "GetActivityInfoService" is supported by Nagios.

[cmerchant]

You might want to check out this document:

http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... ios-XI.pdf

[jpipitone]

I saw this document. I've read that if we do not specify a method, it defaults to get. As I specified earlier, the method name used for this login form is "GetActivityInfoService"

I am awaiting further details from our web development team on what the postbody would look like. Thanks

[jolson]

I highly suggest reading up on webinject if you'd like to walk through a service. The following page in particular you might find useful:
http://www.webinject.org/manual.html#tcparammethod

[jpipitone]

Thank you

[cmerchant]

Just a heads up on the webinject code, the original plugin was written Corey Goldberg and has not been updated since 1.4.1. It is currently maintained by Sven Nierlein on github (current version is 1.8.6):
https://github.com/sni/Webinject