In a communication system having one or more monitored devices communicatively coupled to a monitoring system, a method of obtaining status information of a monitored device is described. The method includes creating a communication session using HTTP protocol with the monitored device, ii) accessing a web page of the monitored device in order, to obtain information displayed on the web page, iii) parsing the displayed information using a first and second data structure vectors in order to obtain the status information of the monitored device, and iv) closing the communication session upon parsing all the information displayed on the web page or upon obtaining desired status information.