Check your website's status using Ouvvi's HTTP Web Request
If your company depends on its website, you need it to be up and running constantly. However sometimes there can be problems, and your website could go down without you knowing. Ouvvi has the ability to check your websites status on an interval thats suits you. This could be a daily, hourly or even every minute. If Ouvvi manages to find an error, it can send you an email or SMS message informing you of the problem.
Below is a quick guide to help you set this up.
Create a new project.
Enter a name and a brief description.
Click 'Save'
Add a new 'HTTP Web Request' step and give it a name and description.
In the 'URL' parameter, make sure you add http:// before the address otherwise Ouvvi will look for a local file.
In the 'Expression to Validate Response' parameter, the default is </?html>
This checks for a page with HTML content, so if the page does not load there will be no HTML. However now if a web page is not found, the URL you entered gets redirected to OpenDNS which consists of HTML content and Ouvvi believes the site is there. To rectify this you need to change the 'Expression to Validate Response' to a snippet of HTML on your site this could be your logo (<img alt="yourdomainLogo" src="/SiteContent/WebParts/CompanyLogo.png" />) or a hidden div section (<div style="display:none">UsedForOuvviToValidatePage</div>)
Now we need to add another step. This one will be an 'Email Message' step.
The email message body is made up of HTML content so you can design your message to suit your company. This could be colours, logo or a full designed layout.
When you have finished entering all the required details click 'Save'
Go back to your project and add a trigger which you think would be suitable. Simego uses a 15min Trigger.
If everything is set up correctly and your website is up and running you should get a success.
A good idea is to edit you HTTP Web Request Step and add a few 'Zs' to your domain (www.simegozzzzzzzzzz.com) and then re-run the project. This checks that your validation and email settings are working correctly. Remember to change your website URL back.
