HTTPS (SSL) Monitoring with MOM 2005 the easy way

I am sure I'm not the only one irritated with the lack of SSL support in the Web Sites & Services MP via the sequence capture tool (you can manually edit captures sequences to manually SSL support to a sequence), along with the need to actually capture a sequence for every URL you wish to monitor. Enter the ServerXMLHTTP object, which is native to Windows 2003, Windows XP and Windows 2000 SP3 and later. It's native, very stable, and offers support for SSL and authentication beyond what is possible with the Web Sites & Services MP.   Here's an HTTP monitoring script from one of my engineers that delivers: Monitor HTTP / HTTPS URL Compare a user provided string against content returned. Performance charts for response time and availability Alerts on response latency Script Parameters: URL: Can be HTTP or HTTPS          ex. http://www.microsoft.com SearchString: Text string that should be somewhere in the HTML code. ChartAvailability: Set to 1 if you want to chart your availability. If it set, it will log a performance counter with a value of 1 to signify it is up.  A zero to signify it is down. LogSuccess: Enables the processing of successful logging of alerts and events. For Troubleshooting only. Threshold: A response time threshold in seconds for the site to return the data.  If the site exceeds this time, then it will raise an alert.  Set to 0 if you want to disable (will also disable the performance counter logging as well). Get it here: http://www.momresources.org/momscripts/httpmonitor.txt