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Web Console Watcher Monitor

Microsoft.SystemCenter.WebConsoleWatcherMonitor (UnitMonitor)

This monitor checks the availability of the Operations Manager Web Console by doing a simple http ping of the Web Console.

Knowledge Base article:

Summary

The Operations Manager Web Console is unavailable. This was detected by pinging the Web Console URL from the Web Console server. By default, this monitor pings the Web Console URL every 15 minutes.

Causes

This can happen if the web site hosting the web console is not accessible or stopped. It can also happen if the Web Console is not properly registered.

Resolutions

Try the following troubleshooting steps to attempt to fix the problem:

Element properties:

TargetMicrosoft.SystemCenter.WebConsoleWatcher
Parent MonitorSystem.Health.AvailabilityState
CategoryStateCollection
EnabledTrue
Alert GenerateTrue
Alert SeverityError
Alert PriorityHigh
Alert Auto ResolveTrue
Monitor TypeMicrosoft.OperationsManager.WebInterfaceWatcher.MonitorType
RemotableTrue
AccessibilityPublic
Alert Message
Operations Manager Web Console Unavailable
Web Console on server {0} is unavailable
RunAsDefault

Source Code:

<UnitMonitor ID="Microsoft.SystemCenter.WebConsoleWatcherMonitor" Accessibility="Public" Enabled="true" Target="SCLibrary!Microsoft.SystemCenter.WebConsoleWatcher" ParentMonitorID="Health!System.Health.AvailabilityState" Remotable="true" Priority="Normal" TypeID="Microsoft.OperationsManager.WebInterfaceWatcher.MonitorType" ConfirmDelivery="true">

  <Category>StateCollection</Category>

  <AlertSettings AlertMessage="Microsoft.SystemCenter.WebConsoleWatcherMonitor.AlertMessage">

    <AlertOnState>Error</AlertOnState>

    <AutoResolve>true</AutoResolve>

    <AlertPriority>High</AlertPriority>

    <AlertSeverity>Error</AlertSeverity>

    <AlertParameters>

      <AlertParameter1>$Target/Host/Property[Type="Windows!Microsoft.Windows.Computer"]/NetworkName$</AlertParameter1>

    </AlertParameters>

  </AlertSettings>

  <OperationalStates>

    <OperationalState ID="Healthy" MonitorTypeStateID="Healthy" HealthState="Success"/>

    <OperationalState ID="Critical" MonitorTypeStateID="Critical" HealthState="Error"/>

  </OperationalStates>

  <Configuration>

    <ComputerName>$Target/Host/Property[Type="Windows!Microsoft.Windows.Computer"]/NetworkName$</ComputerName>

    <UrlToCheck>$Target/Property[Type="SCLibrary!Microsoft.SystemCenter.WebConsoleWatcher"]/WebConsoleUrl$</UrlToCheck>

    <IntervalSeconds>900</IntervalSeconds>

    <TimeoutSeconds>300</TimeoutSeconds>

    <SyncTime/>

    <DebugFlag>false</DebugFlag>

    <Threshold>3</Threshold>

    <SetProxyDirect>false</SetProxyDirect>

  </Configuration>

</UnitMonitor>