Using Alternate Web Servers to Publish Reports

By default, the links within the reports will be in the form http://<server>:<port>/... where

  • server - the name of the server where the monitoring service is installed
  • port - the HTTP port specified in Settings
  • the root directory in the URL is the Reporting directory as specified in Settings

    • If you wish to have the reports available via a different means (perhaps you want to publish them on your intranet), you can configure them to use a different root URL that will work with your other web server, be it IIS, Apache or otherwise.

    To use a different root URL, follow the steps below:

    1. Either go to Settings and point the Reporting directory to a different place, or point your WWW server at the Reporting directory. For example, with IIS you would create a Virtual Directory (named ServerReports for example) that points at C:\Program Files\PA Server Monitor\Reports

    2. Go to the main registry key for the product:

      For PA File Sight: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\PAFileSight
      For PA Server Monitor: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\PowerAdminServerMonitor
      For PA Storage Monitor: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\PAStorageMonitor

      and add a String value named:

      HTTP_URL_OVERRIDE

      IMPORTANT: Make SURE there are no spaces in the name of that value

      The value that you place there will replace the "http://<server>:<port>/" root that is used on internal report URLs.

      For instance, if you created the Virtual Directory above, you would set the value to
      HTTP_URL_OVERRIDE = "http://web_server_name/ServerReports/"

    PA File Sight