Features and Benefits
Argent Sentinel is a comprehensive web URL and Server monitoring product from Argent
Below are the most important features and benefits of Argent Sentinel
- End-To-End Web Monitoring:
- Handles all known HTTP error codes
- Check for one or more known error codes for each URL
Example: Check bad request error (400) for a specific URL
Example: Check unauthorized error (401) for a secured URL
Example: Check all HTTP errors for a home page
Benefit
Preconfigured error cases: Argent Sentinel has a list of all known HTTP errors
These errors can be tested across all licensed URLs
- Run WMI and Linux/Unix scripts if a web server is offline or slow
- Preconfigured scripts for checking system resources like CPU, memory, NIC traffic, etc
- Screenshot capturing
Benefit
Identify and correct the root cause of an issue without manual intervention
Benefit
Stress testing of websites can be done using a user-configurable number of simulated virtual users
- Mimics user interactions
- Supports manual operations such as mouse clicks and keyboard input
Example: Automatically provides username and password to user’s CRM and log in to authenticate user credentials
Benefit
Automatically run laborious, pain staking web testing which normally requires human interaction
- Retrieves data from web pages and makes it available as variables in Script
Example: Go to finance.yahoo.com, retrieve Apple’s stock price, and alert if it crosses a threshold or store the stock price in Argent Predictor for Analytics
Benefit
Configure Notification Alerts based on data updated in websites
Can use Argent Predictor and Argent Reports for web-scraped data
Easy to understand, edit, and maintain
Benefit
Enhance a recorded Script with Argent APIs or customer’s APIs
Benefits
Easy to install and upgrade; easy to prepare and configure infrastructure and environment
Exploit Argent AT Notification Alerts, Argent Console, etc
- Headless (no graphical user interface) Chrome or Chromium browser uses the least resources and is the fastest tool for this purpose
- Puppeteer (native API access to Chrome and Chromium) is the leading tool used for web automation