UIM - Build a URL Response Availability Report

Products

• DX Unified Infrastructure Management (Nimsoft / UIM)

Issue/Introduction

We are currently monitoring URL-Response using the probe url_response probe.

How can we generate an Availability Report using UIM, Cabi, or the Operator console? 

Environment

Release : UIM 20.4 - 23.4.5

Cause

Guidance 

Resolution

There is no out-of-the-box URL_RESPONSE Availability Report.  So, to build an effective URL Availability report you will have to use one of the custom options listed after the url_response probe configuration as listed below. 

 

First of all, with URL_RESPONSE you can monitor response time and other QOS measures available.
To have an availability report the metric that can be used is "Sub-String Found"
The example below shows the different options:

• Below we are monitoring sample URL
  To know if the URL is actually available we can search for a substring of our choice from the returned content.  And look for the substring:
  
  
• and enable sub-string found metric:
  
  The metric (QOS_URL_SUBSTRING_FOUND) will be 1 when it's found and NULL when it's not found

 

Once you have collected this metric you have different options for creating graphs:

1. You can use the metric viewer:
   Working with the Metrics Palette (UIM Documentation for Viewing Metric Data)
   
   
   
2. You can create a custom CABI Report as the below:
   (To build such CABI Report follow the instructions --> How to create customized reports using UIM CABI )
   1. In the report below it is showing the state is up all the time:
      
3. Alternatively, you can use the SLM application and create SLA Reports (broadcom.com)
   
   View the SLA Report: 
   
   Here is how the exported PDF Looks like:
   

 

 

The above are the options available with UIM for building a URL Availability Report. 

Additional Information

UIM - Add a CABI Custom Reports to Operator Console (broadcom.com)

Also, please note that CABI with UIM is being deprecated on October 1, 2025: Deprecation Announcement for support of CABI JasperReports
Addition functionality is being added for using 3rd party BI tools and is documented here: DX UIM Data Services (From 23.4 CU5)