CDN URL monitoring with timestamp as a query string

[ca support]

Hi All,

We got a request to monitor CDN URL with time stamp as a query string.How to configure timestamp as a query string?

Regards,
Usha

[Gene Howard]

Hi,
I do not understand the requirement.
Do you want to parse the URL for information in the query string for something?
Please provide more details on the exact use case you are trying to accomplish with detailed examples.

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Gene Howard
Principal Support Engineer
Broadcom
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[ca support]

Hi Gene,

Even I do not understand what the customer exactly mean.This is the request we have got

Kindly  Configure Time stamp as a query String in all the URLS.

we need to attach a query string with random unique numbers every time

example : URL : https://www.sify.com/movies/pondicherry-chief-minister-thanks-actor-vijay-news-tamil-ueyjzQbhbgddd.html

 

With TimeStamp : https://www.sify.com/movies/pondicherry-chief-minister-thanks-actor-vijay-news-tamil-ueyjzQbhbgddd.html?a=randomuniquenumber

Regards,
Usha

[Gene Howard]

Do you want to monitor the URL  https://www.sify.com/ ?
What exactly are you wanting to monitor?
The response time, connectivity?

the above information does not seem to me to have any monitoring requirements stated in it, so I am unsure how to help

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Gene Howard
Principal Support Engineer
Broadcom
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[David Michel]

Could be wrong but based on over 30 years experience, not have a clear and complete understanding of the client's need is sure to end in failure. By 'need' that doesn't mean what the client says, it means that you understand it enough to know what the client really needs, which often doesn't match up to what they say. 

Next thing is coming to a common definition of words to ensure everyone's understanding is the same. In this case what is meant by 'query', to me it is used to obtain information from a database, and is out of context for use in a url. 

Regardless perhaps it is possible to get to the root of this, without any of that. 
url_response uses a fixed url for monitoring, it is set in the profile, and the probe restarted after it is set, It is not possible to have a variable or changing value in the url, without going to the probe configure, changing it, saving, and restarting. 


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Support Engineer
Broadcom
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[Keith Kruepke]

You might be able to monitor a URL with a timestamp in it via the logmon probe. I know that probe supports polling URLs, and it also supports using date/time fields in file names. I'm not 100% sure if you can use those same date/time fields in URLs, but my guess is that probably works.

Monitoring a URL via logmon does not really work the same as via url_response when it comes to the types of checking and alerting you can do. So it might not meet your need. For example, I don't think it will give you any response time metrics at all. I'm also not sure how it reacts when it fails to retrieve the URL.

And as @David Michel pointed out, understanding the need is critical. Possibly even more so when considering the use of a different probe.