Ideally you would use a contructor for "http://{yourserver}:8089/"
or "https://{yourserver}:8089/"
(depending on whether you are using SSL or not, and if not, why not?).
One of those two will respond with meaningful XML if the service is up, running, and behaving properly.
Ideally you would use a contructor for "http://{yourserver}:8089/"
or "https://{yourserver}:8089/"
(depending on whether you are using SSL or not, and if not, why not?).
One of those two will respond with meaningful XML if the service is up, running, and behaving properly.
Of course it goes without saying that if you have changed altered the default port setting you have to account for it.
Telnet on management port 8089