topic Re: Proper syntax for urls.conf with multiple URLs in Getting Data In

Proper syntax for urls.conf with multiple URLs

sliderCO — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:41:28 GMT

Can someone clarify the syntax for multiple urls in the urls.conf file please for the WebMon?
The app is only picking up the last url in my file. The examples show brackets around the url name/title but I saw that there were no brackets in the earlier version.

My Site 1

url = http://www.site1.com

timeout = 30

userAgent = Mozilla/4.0

My Site 2

url = http://www.site2.com

timeout = 30

userAgent = Mozilla/4.0

My Site 3

url = http://www.site3.com

timeout = 30

userAgent = Mozilla/4.0

My site 4

url = http://www.site4.com

timeout = 30

userAgent = Mozilla/4.0

Thanks!

Re: Proper syntax for urls.conf with multiple URLs

sliderCO — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:37:06 GMT

I got it! The brackets are required for each URL or "ping_name" as it is referred to in the app.

Re: Proper syntax for urls.conf with multiple URLs

sliderCO — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 04:46:55 GMT

For example:

[Site 1 CoolSite]
url = http://www.website1.com
timeout = 30
userAgent = Mozilla/4.0
[Site 2 CoolerSite]
url = http://www.website2.com
timeout = 30
userAgent = Mozilla/4.0

Re: Proper syntax for urls.conf with multiple URLs

Blu3fish — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 06:53:56 GMT

Out of curiosity have you, or anyone else, figured out a way of specifying multiple pages under a given subdirectory as a single definition in urls.conf?

Such that
url = http://www.website.com/a/1
...
url = http://www.website.com/a/2

could be defined as
url = http://www.website.com/a/

because that'd be handy (whitelisting filetypes would too but we may have to wait for that one).

Re: Proper syntax for urls.conf with multiple URLs

splunktest_ng — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 16:38:59 GMT

Hi,
Can you pl help on how to configure webmon.
I did modify urls.conf but I cant see any data coming in. should the useragent be changed?
I am using IE 9

Re: Proper syntax for urls.conf with multiple URLs

dearimranz — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:23:43 GMT

Hi, it might be that you have found the answer but I had the same problem. I think, I solved it by making a script called "webmon_handler.py" executable which is not executable by default.