How can I monitor website availability

Last Modified

Tue May 19 17:46 GMT 2020

Description

  • Is there a way to monitor if a website is accessible?
  • Shows how to add a service that will monitor a website.

Environment

  • N-able N-central

Solution

  • You can use the HTTP and HTTPS Services to accomplish this
  • These services can be added to an existing device within N-able N-central , then configured to look up a particular website by URL in the service details.
  • Alternatively, a "device" for a website can be manually created from Actions > Add/Import devices > More options > Manually create a device that represents an external website or ip address, and then the HTTP or HTTPS service added to those devices and configured.
    • Note that these services will need to be monitored by either a probe, or the N-able N-central server itself.
  • For more information on how these services work, see the N-able N-central help pages below:
  1. HTTP - https://documentation.n-able.com/N-central/userguide/Content/Services/Services_HTTP.html
  2. HTTPS - https://documentation.n-able.com/N-central/userguide/Content/Services/Services_HTTPS.html