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Using the http-ping utility to generate continuous http traffic for the HT agent.
When you install the HTTP "HU" agent to monitor your Web Server, you will not see any data on your APM console until you load/send some valid web/http traffic on port 80 to your monitored web server. There is a handy free utility I use called http-ping that can generate continuous or discrete http traffic in a background script. This can be useful if you don't have continuous adequate load on your web server and need to generate continuous, quick http traffic. Once you have generated a good amount of http traffic on your... [More]
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Debugging the HTTP (HU) agent from not connecting to the APM dashboard.
S o you've installed the APM 814 HTTP agent to monitor your Apache IHS server, and its showing as "Not Running" on the APM dashboard. Here are some steps you can do to get it working again. 1. Check the Apache server and the HU agent, make sure they're both up and running: Go to your $APM_HOME/agent/bin dir and run these commands: ps -aef | grep -i httpd and cinfo -r . The first command will get you a listing of all the Apache IHS server processes. If you've started the server as root, that will be the parent process,... [More]
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