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Introduction
eValid Rich Internet Application (RIA) monitoring consists of regularly scheduled playbacks of eValid test scripts that exercise selected features of a candidate website. The RIA monitoring data can be integrated for reporting in the the Zenoss -- Monitoring and Management System.

General Information
Rich Internet Application (RIA) monitoring is supported by eValid through both a standard package of licenses, and a unique eValid-based script provisioning work package.

• RIA Monitoring Standard Package
  The standard package includes a Master Station (for script development and checkout) and two Agent Stations (for script playback, one for an intranet and one for an extranet agent).

• RIA Monitoring Script Provisioning Services
  eValid engineering staff will identify the RIA requirements, and build script that run reliably, for two typical scenarios.

• Reliable Operation
  eValid agent stations operate on Windows NT/XP/Vista environments, under control of the Windows Scheduler, which interfaces to eVaild via the Command Line Interface.

• AJAX Support
  The standard packages above do not provide for use of the PAGEMAP feature, which is needed by eValid if the functional playbacks are against a site that involves AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) implementations.

Zenoss Specific
eValid playbacks generate data that is stored in the eValid EventLog file.

There is a standard eValid-to-Zenoss Integration Script which interfaces eValid logfile output into the Zenoss reporting and display system.

Here is a sample image of how the reporting in the Zenoss monitor appears for a script that includes several intermediate checkpoints: