URL redirect monitoring

Products

• DX Unified Infrastructure Management (Nimsoft / UIM)

Issue/Introduction

Customer would like to be alerted when a specific URL is redirected to another site.  What options are available to do this? 

Environment

Release : 20.4

Resolution

In some cases I do see that when I run the url_response probe at log level 4 I am getting a redirect line:

url_response: [test_url] DBG: < HTTP/1.1 302

Logmon could be used to capture something like this.

The probe itself does not have a way to identify if something was redirected intelligently that can then be alarmed on.

The probe does have the option to alarm when a certain text is found in the returned html, if there is something that may be utilized that way.