Hello, I am not sure where to post this however its regarding the Web Application Transaction Monitoring functionality in SCOM. Its very esoteric and I can find NO information whatsoever on this issue. I am not a Web Dev SME however I have enough knowledge to work through some site monitoring configurations and make them work. However there are some of our sites that fall outside of my know how, specifically with regards to dynamic parameter extraction, which I believe is at the heart of why these particular transaction tests end up failing. To be clear, I rarely use the build in Web Recorder exclusively. I do basic transaction setup using the Recorder then use Fiddler to capture the requests and insert them manually into SCOM with the requisite post payloads.
Without chirping on SCOM Transaction monitoring too much … let’s face it … its not the best sigh. Without Fiddler you are basically shooting in the dark .. guess that’s obvious. Anyways as an example of a working situation, I set an Extraction “Context Parameter” into the initial “Get” and then in the subsequent login “Post”, I insert the parameter into the post body (sessionID) as you can see below.
conversion=false&doNotInvalidate=false&webURL=https%3A%2F%2FWWW.blabla.com%2FgoodNews&locale=en_CA&firmCode=QA&userCode=UserName&password=Password%233&maxLoginAttempts=0&sessionId=$ParametersContext/Sessionid$&failedLoginAttempts=0&browserSuports=Y
Now when the monitor runs, the session ID is dynamically extracted and everything works peachy .. all good. However I have encountered sites in my work which there is obviously something dynamic being passed back and forth (upon login) and there is no specific reference to what it is in the Post payload. Not like the post example above where “sessionId” clearly is present. When I follow the transaction playback in Fiddler of one of these sites, (or record in Fiddler a manual transaction set) I see dynamic session content (such as cookies in the Header) in the explorer. However I don’t understand how to “insert” these dynamic variables into SCOM or if its even possible. I have exhaustively searched online and all I can find are really basic “non real world” examples of extracting BING search Criteria and appending them to the request URL’s …. Sigh there is no translation to my problem at least to the best of my knowledge.
Does anyone out there have any ideas whatsoever!!!! I am really at the end of my rope.
Thank you