How do I manually send a POST without a form for API-call testing?
Is there a way to manually send an HTTP POST without the need of a form? I'm not seeing a right-click option. I would like to monitor our API JVMs by submitting XML POSTs with Image Verification (Image...
View ArticleWeb Performance Monitor and IE 10 / 11
Hi everyone, There is an issue that has more to do with IE 10 and 11 than with WPM, but the effect is that the new WebCache that is utilized for IE will quickly grow in size into the 10s of gigabytes...
View ArticleBackup tests and schedules?
Is there an export tool available to just backup the tests themselves along with their schedules?We have hundreds of tests now and we do have a DBA team that backs up the DB. But, in the event of a...
View ArticleAlert Suppression
I seem to be misunderstanding how alert suppression should be working. We have several players running tests that we don't want to have snmp traps sent for. All of the transaction names I don't...
View ArticleSizing/Scaling tool availability?
Is there or will there be a plan for a solution sizing tool? During the web presentation they quoted "several hundred" transactions. We will need to plan for at least 80k transaction monitors and...
View ArticlePlayer Load Percentage
Is the player load percentage based on # of CPUs? So if I have 2 CPUs, then I can safely go up to 200%?Asking because around 7pm the other night, for some unknown reason at this time, all 4 of my...
View ArticleRecording with IF statements
I had a nicely working transaction recorded. It logs into a PeopleSoft web application and does a few tasks. The problem is occasionally the PeopleSoft administrators place a broadcast message,...
View ArticleConditional Alerting on Multiple WPM Transactions (Dependencies)
I have web transactions A, B, and C I created a group G containing all 3 transactions I am trying to alert on the following cases only (dependencies)Transaction A, B and C are DownTransaction A and C...
View ArticlePop-Up on site checked by WPM. How to get past it?
One of the sites that we check with WPM has started to throw a browser popup relating to running Java. When I ran the recording under my account on the NPM/WPM server, I was able to click "Never show...
View ArticleIs it possible to attach WPM screenshot image to advanced alert email...
I know you can add the WPM screenshot URL to an advanced alert email notification, but is there any way to attach the actual image to the email? Off hours it would be more useful to see the image from...
View ArticleWPM conditional steps
I have a WPM script that tests 3 steps in a website (logging in, running a query, displaying results). The problem I'm having is that occasionally the application inserts a broadcast message that...
View ArticleSEUM Playback Player - Run as a domain account?
I did a simple recording of our in network SharePoint site which does require domain authentication to access. First time around with the playback pushed to a workstation node it was an issue. Redid...
View ArticleLicensing Question
Hello, I'm looking to Web performance monitor, and trying to determine what licensing we would need. I want to monitor five websites. Each website will have a few URLs (or steps) to test (i.e. main...
View ArticleUsing CASE or IF statements in a 'defined SQL variable' for use in the...
This is an example of the altert email message: **************************************************************************************************************************${DateTime} WEB TRANSACTION...
View ArticleUnmanage via the API?
Is it possible to manage/unmanage transactions via the API? I wrote a cgi frontend (using perl) for Solarwinds that gives our operations an overview of all of the transactions and their current...
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Playback failed: This page cannot be found - HTTPS page
I've been having issue when recording a https page. During the recording there was no error shown, however when I try to playback the record, it will show Playback failed: This page cannot be found on...
View ArticleWPM - Custom alert config
We want to capture the details of parameters {like sessionid} from tcp waterfall chart when a transaction fails , since tcp waterfall chart is not historical at this point , did anyone attempted to do...
View ArticleAlert Suppression
I seem to be misunderstanding how alert suppression should be working. We have several players running tests that we don't want to have snmp traps sent for. All of the transaction names I don't...
View ArticleWPM - upgraded from IE8 to IE9 - XML text search no longer works
I have several WPM tests that bring up a page of XML/text and searches for a specific string. These tests were working fine on IE8. I then had a requirement to upgrade the browser to IE9 to support...
View ArticleHTTP POST used in WPM
Hello folks, Is there an option or a proper way in WPM to perform HTTP POST against a web site and then verify what is needed?To me it seems that WPM supports only GET and HEAD requests. Thank you in...
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