Web service connector

The web service connector can be used to monitor HTTP API endpoints, such as any REST service or SAP CPI/BTP cloud instances

Configuration

Parameter	Description
Title	The display name of the connector
URL	The base URL of the web service
Authentication type	The authentication method to use
User	The user credentials to use for BASIC authentification
Availability end point	If set, this will be used to test Web service availability
Authentication server	OAUTH2 authentication server providing tokens
Client Id	The client Id for OAUTH client authentication
Client secret	the client secret for OAUTH client authentication
Client authentication mode	To use with OAUTH, defines how authentication parameters are sent
Access Token	The token to use for Bearer token authentication
Authentication parameters	Used to specify additional header parameters and for future use

Method	Description
NONE	Connect without authentication
BASIC	Do a basic authentication using the provided user profile
TOKEN	Do an authentication with a Bearer Token, you must set the tocken field
HEADERS	Authentication by headers: Set the header key=value to use in the properties
OAUTH2_CLIENT_CREDENTIALS	Use OAUTH2 and authenticate to token server with a clientId/secret pair
OAUTH2_PASSWORD_CREDENTIALS	Use OAUTH2 and authenticate to token server with the user/password pair of the assigned user profile

The metric used to set connector availability is “webservice_availability”.
It will be set to 1 if the connector successfully connects to the availability end point. It will be set to 0 otherwise.