Body

Body text is an optional parameter element for the HTTP and HTTPS monitors. Specify the body part of a POST request.

For example, you could specify the following body text for the POST request:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8' ?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" 
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/
XMLSchema-instance">
<SOAP-ENV:Body>
<ns1:echoString xmlns:ns1="http://soapinterop.org/">
<ns2:input xsi:type="xsd:string" xmlns:ns2="http://soapinterop.org/xsd">
</ns2:input>
</ns1:echoString>
</SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

To add body text to the POST request:

In the Internet Service Monitoring Configuration, select an HTTP or HTTPS profile.
On the Advanced tab, change the command to POST.
On the Body tab, which is now enabled, enter the body text for the POST request.

The Content-Type parameter is automatically added to the Parameters tab. The parameter defaults to application/x-www-form-urlencoded. Modify the parameter to the type of request inserted into the body tab. In the above example, change the Content-Type to text/xml.

Screen capture of Parameters tab described in text.

Alternatively, you can configure the body for the POST request using the Internet Service Monitoring Configuration command-line interface or ismbatch and the @Body group. For example:

ismconfig -config -add monitor=http profile=httpbodytest command=POST page="/" 
server="10.1.1.1" @Body "body text"