Web Access Methods Test

Web access methods define actions that clients perform on web resources via APIs or web servers. This test monitors the availability of the web access methods running in the application of a web server and reports the status of those methods.

Target of the test : An Apache web server

Agent deploying this test : An internal agent

Outputs of the test : One set of results for every web server monitored

Configurable parameters for the test
Parameters	Description
Test period	This indicates how often should the test be executed.
Host	The host for which the test is to be configured.
Port	The port to which the specified host listens
Web URL	This test emulates a user accessing a specific web page(s) on the target web server to determine the availability and responsiveness of the server. To enable this emulation, you need to configure the test with the URL of the web page that it should access. Specify this URL against the Web URL parameter.
Username	Specify the username for accessing the Web URL.
Password	Specify the password of the user for accessing the Web URL.
Confirm Password	Confirm the password of the user by retyping it here.
ProxyHost	The host on which a web proxy server is running (in case a proxy server is to be used)
ProxyPort	The port number on which the web proxy server is listening
Proxyusername	The user name of the proxy server
Proxypassword	The password of the proxy server
Confirm password	Confirm the password by retyping it here.
Include User Agent in Header	A user agent is a computer program representing a person - for example, a browser in a Web context. Besides a browser, a user agent could be a bot scraping webpages, a download manager, or another app accessing the Web. Along with each request they make to the server, browsers include a self-identifying User-Agent HTTP header called a user agent (UA) string. This string often identifies the browser, its version number, and its host operating system. Some web sites may have been designed to service only those access requests that contain the User Agent (UA) string in the HTTP request header. If this test has been configured with the URL of such a web site/web page, then you have to instruct the test to include the UA string in the header of every connection request it sends to the configured URL; if this is not done, then the test will fail. In this case therefore, set the value of the Include UserAgent in Header flag to true. By default, this flag is set to false, indicating that the requests this test emulates do not contain the UA string by default.
Timeout	Here, specify the maximum duration (in seconds) for which the test will wait for a response from the server. The default Timeout period is 30 seconds.
Detailed Diagnosis	To make diagnosis more efficient and accurate, the eG Enterprise embeds an optional detailed diagnostic capability. With this capability, the eG agents can be configured to run detailed, more elaborate tests as and when specific problems are detected. To enable the detailed diagnosis capability of this test for a particular server, choose the On option. To disable the capability, click on the Off option. The option to selectively enable/disable the detailed diagnosis capability will be available only if the following conditions are fulfilled: The eG manager license should allow the detailed diagnosis capability Both the normal and abnormal frequencies configured for the detailed diagnosis measures should not be 0.

Measurements made by the test

Measurement

Description

Measurement Unit

Interpretation

Is GET method supported?

Indicates the status of GET method.

The values reported by this measure and its numeric equivalents are mentioned in the table below:

Measure value	Numeric Value
No	0
Yes	1

Note:

By default, this measure reports the Measure Values listed in the table above to indicate the status of GET method. The graph of this measure however, is represented using the numeric equivalents only.

Use the detailed diagnosis of this measure to know the details of GET status.

Is HEAD method supported?

Indicates the status of HEAD method.

The values reported by this measure and its numeric equivalents are mentioned in the table below:

Measure value	Numeric Value
No	0
Yes	1

Note:

By default, this measure reports the Measure Values listed in the table above to indicate the status of HEAD method. The graph of this measure however, is represented using the numeric equivalents only.

Use the detailed diagnosis of this measure to know the details of HEAD status.

Is PUT method supported?

Indicates the status of PUT method.

The values reported by this measure and its numeric equivalents are mentioned in the table below:

Measure value	Numeric Value
No	0
Yes	1

Note:

By default, this measure reports the Measure Values listed in the table above to indicate the status of PUT method. The graph of this measure however, is represented using the numeric equivalents only.

Use the detailed diagnosis of this measure to know the details of PUT status.

Is POST method supported?

Indicates the status of POST method.

The values reported by this measure and its numeric equivalents are mentioned in the table below:

Measure value	Numeric Value
No	0
Yes	1

Note:

By default, this measure reports the Measure Values listed in the table above to indicate the status of POST method. The graph of this measure however, is represented using the numeric equivalents only.

Use the detailed diagnosis of this measure to know the details of POST status.

Is DELETE method supported?

Indicates the status of DELETE method.

The values reported by this measure and its numeric equivalents are mentioned in the table below:

Measure value	Numeric Value
No	0
Yes	1

Note:

By default, this measure reports the Measure Values listed in the table above to indicate the status of DELETE method. The graph of this measure however, is represented using the numeric equivalents only.

Use the detailed diagnosis of this measure to know the details of DELETE status.

Is OPTIONS method supported?

Indicates the status of OPTIONS method.

The values reported by this measure and its numeric equivalents are mentioned in the table below:

Measure value	Numeric Value
No	0
Yes	1

Note:

By default, this measure reports the Measure Values listed in the table above to indicate the status of OPTIONS method. The graph of this measure however, is represented using the numeric equivalents only.

Use the detailed diagnosis of this measure to know the details of OPTIONS status.

Is TRACE method supported?

Indicates the status of TRACE method.

The values reported by this measure and its numeric equivalents are mentioned in the table below:

Measure value	Numeric Value
No	0
Yes	1

Note:

By default, this measure reports the Measure Values listed in the table above to indicate the status of TRACE method. The graph of this measure however, is represented using the numeric equivalents only.

Use the detailed diagnosis of this measure to know the details of TRACE status.

Is PROPFIND method supported?

Indicates the status of PROPFIND method.

The values reported by this measure and its numeric equivalents are mentioned in the table below:

Measure value	Numeric Value
No	0
Yes	1

Note:

By default, this measure reports the Measure Values listed in the table above to indicate the status of PROPFIND method. The graph of this measure however, is represented using the numeric equivalents only.

Use the detailed diagnosis of this measure to know the details of PROPFIND status.

Is PROPPATCH method supported?

Indicates the status of PROPPATCH method.

The values reported by this measure and its numeric equivalents are mentioned in the table below:

Measure value	Numeric Value
No	0
Yes	1

Note:

By default, this measure reports the Measure Values listed in the table above to indicate the status of PROPPATCH method. The graph of this measure however, is represented using the numeric equivalents only.

Use the detailed diagnosis of this measure to know the details of PROPPATCH status.

Is MOVE method supported?

Indicates the status of MOVE method.

The values reported by this measure and its numeric equivalents are mentioned in the table below:

Measure value	Numeric Value
No	0
Yes	1

Note:

By default, this measure reports the Measure Values listed in the table above to indicate the status of MOVE method. The graph of this measure however, is represented using the numeric equivalents only.

Use the detailed diagnosis of this measure to know the details of MOVE status.

Is LOCK method supported?

Indicates the status of LOCK method.

The values reported by this measure and its numeric equivalents are mentioned in the table below:

Measure value	Numeric Value
No	0
Yes	1

Note:

By default, this measure reports the Measure Values listed in the table above to indicate the status of LOCK method. The graph of this measure however, is represented using the numeric equivalents only.

Use the detailed diagnosis of this measure to know the details of LOCK status.

Is TRACK method supported?

Indicates the status of TRACK method.

The values reported by this measure and its numeric equivalents are mentioned in the table below:

Measure value	Numeric Value
No	0
Yes	1

Note:

By default, this measure reports the Measure Values listed in the table above to indicate the status of TRACK method. The graph of this measure however, is represented using the numeric equivalents only.

Use the detailed diagnosis of this measure to know the details of TRACK status.

Is DEBUG method supported?

Indicates the status of DEBUG method.

The values reported by this measure and its numeric equivalents are mentioned in the table below:

Measure value	Numeric Value
No	0
Yes	1

Note:

By default, this measure reports the Measure Values listed in the table above to indicate the status of DEBUG method. The graph of this measure however, is represented using the numeric equivalents only.

Use the detailed diagnosis of this measure to know the details of DEBUG status.

Is Gzip compression enabled?

Indicates the status of Gzip compression.

The values reported by this measure and its numeric equivalents are mentioned in the table below:

Measure value	Numeric Value
No	0
Yes	1

Note:

By default, this measure reports the Measure Values listed in the table above to indicate the status of Gzip compression. The graph of this measure however, is represented using the numeric equivalents only.

Is HTTPS supported?

Indicates the status of HTTPS method.

The values reported by this measure and its numeric equivalents are mentioned in the table below:

Measure value	Numeric Value
No	0
Yes	1

Note:

By default, this measure reports the Measure Values listed in the table above to indicate the status of HTTPS method. The graph of this measure however, is represented using the numeric equivalents only.

Is HTTPS redirect supported?

Indicates the status of HTTPS redirect.

The values reported by this measure and its numeric equivalents are mentioned in the table below:

Measure value	Numeric Value
No	0
Yes	1

Note:

By default, this measure reports the Measure Values listed in the table above to indicate the status of HTTPS redirect. The graph of this measure however, is represented using the numeric equivalents only.

Is HTTP2 protocol supported?

Indicates the status of HTTP2 protocol .

The values reported by this measure and its numeric equivalents are mentioned in the table below:

Measure value	Numeric Value
No	0
Yes	1

Note:

By default, this measure reports the Measure Values listed in the table above to indicate the status of HTTP2 protocol. The graph of this measure however, is represented using the numeric equivalents only.