URL not reachable from OM 2007 but reachable fine from other browsers

Question

Hi,
I am running into this unique issue where OM 2007 fails in reaching out to a URL, which is accessible from browsers normally.
I have this Monitor built as a custom one , built with probe action "Microsoft.SystemCenter.WebApplication.UrlProbe". I am using condition filters as "RequestResults/RequestResult[@Id="$Config/RequestID$"]/BasePageData/ErrorCode"
equals "0" or does not equal "0".
Is this a known issue, do we have a workaround for this??
Thanks,
Kandi.

Answer 1

Hi Kandiraja,
If this is a custom monitor using a powershell script you might also need to specify proxy configuration inside script.
I found an example of this here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/571429/powershell-web-requests-and-proxies
Untested code from post:
$user = $env:username
$webproxy = (get-itemproperty 'HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet
Settings').ProxyServer
$pwd = Read-Host "Password?" -assecurestring
$proxy = new-object System.Net.WebProxy
$proxy.Address = $webproxy
$account = new-object System.Net.NetworkCredential($user,[Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::PtrToStringAuto([Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::SecureStringToBSTR($pwd)), "")
$proxy.credentials = $account
$url = "http://stackoverflow.com"
$wc = new-object system.net.WebClient
$wc.proxy = $proxy
$webpage = $wc.DownloadData($url)
$string = [System.Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetString($webpage)
Difficult to say what the issue as this is a custom monitor.
Cheers,
Martin
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