Basic Monitoring: Static Websites
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The common definition of a static website is one that has
web pages with an .html or .htm ending; however, most sites are actually static
– they don’t change on a constant and frequent basis. Non-static sites include e-commerce sites,
think Amazon.com or Yahoo.com. These
sties change the page every time it is rendered and viewed.
If your website is static, then you have better options on
monitoring. For example, during
monitoring entire web page source can be compared for validity. Take for example a very simple web page that
contains the following HTML source:
<html><body><h1>Test Page</h1></body></html>
A Watch Item can then be configured to search this page each
run to ensure that exact source is the same.
If the source changes, an alarm can be triggered.
This type of test is useful to ensure that an error has not
occurred or the HTML source has changed unexpectedly.
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