As far as I know, checking vit https will only check if IIS is running. As you stated the content returned by IIS is static and then from there it's based on API calls done by the browser.

You could maybe add an aspx page, something like check.aspx, and do from there a simple API call, for example, try to authenticate as a user used for the check and return SUCCESS / FAILURE depending the result of the call.

Then use your monitor tool pattern matching.

It's a bit unconvenient but I have no other idea ...

Sébastien,

Thanks for your input.  I may have just figured it out!

We can hit the Diagnostic Page at /About/checkup which is wide open.  There are product checks at the bottom.

Passed    Activation ECHO A0
Passed    Activation ECHO A1
Passed    Connection to SmarterMail Service
Passed    Product Activated?
Passed    IIS Worker Count: 1

Now, I need to do some testing since I have never viewed this page when SmarterMail experiences issues.  In the past, web access has died yet MailService.exe continued to run.

Ron

Damn, you're right. The page is wide open... Good thing for the checks, but I'm not sure it's a good idea to give too much informations about a system publicly.

I thought it was limited to the system admin... hum :)