Fwd: Software to monitor domains

[Loïc Grenié]

2008/11/16 Ray Parrish <crp at cmc.net>:
> Still way over blown, and it requires that I install a web server on my
> machine which I don't need or want. All I want is a simple GUI program
> that periodically tests to see if http is up on my web sites, that pops
> up a message here on my desktop about outages. That ones notification
> options included everything but local notification.
>
> Later, Ray Parrish
>
> John Doe wrote:
>> Hobbit!
>>
>> http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/
>>
>> Does exactly what you want, and just like Ubuntu, is completely open
>> source. : )
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:18 AM, Ray Parrish <crp at cmc.net
>> <mailto:crp at cmc.net>> wrote:
>>
>>     Wow! That's way over blown for what I need. I just need something that
>>     pings the servers every few minutes, and pops up a notice if either of
>>     them is down. A web search found lots of Windows packages that do
>>     this,
>>     but no Linux based solutions. I even tried one of the Windows apps
>>     with
>>     Wine, but it wouldn't run.
>>
>>     Later, Ray Parrish
>>
>>     Mario Spinthiras wrote:
>>     > Zenoss.
>>     >
>>     > http://www.zenoss.org/
>>     >
>>     > and for the record on monitoring systems  you should read this:
>>     >
>>     > http://www.spinthiras.net/2008/07/17/network-monitoring/
>>     >
>>     >
>>     > Regards
>>     > Mario A. Spinthiras
>>     > http://www.spinthiras.net/
>>     >
>>
>>     --
>>     http://www.rayslinks.com/ Web index of human reviewed links.
>>     <http://www.rayslinks.com/Troubleshooting%20and%20fixing%20Windows.html>
>>     Trouble shooting and Fixing Windows
>>     http://www.writingsoftheschizophrenic.com My poetry in web pages
>>
>>
>>     --
>>     ubuntu-users mailing list
>>     ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com <mailto:ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>>     Modify settings or unsubscribe at:
>>     https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users
>>
>>
>>
>
> --
> http://www.rayslinks.com/ Web index of human reviewed links.
> <http://www.rayslinks.com/Troubleshooting%20and%20fixing%20Windows.html>
> Trouble shooting and Fixing Windows
> http://www.writingsoftheschizophrenic.com My poetry in web pages
>
>
>
> --
> ubuntu-users mailing list
> ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users
>

     Here is a small shell-script. It's not the best possibility, it
has been tested
  very thoroughly, it cannot be used by two user simultaneously, etc... It is
  hereby put in the public domain, feel free to use it, modify it, publish it,
  closed-source it, whatever:

#!/bin/sh

DIR="/tmp/.testweb/$1"
mkdir -p "$DIR"
cd "$DIR"
if [ "$?" -ne 0 ]
then
    echo "Cannot change directory to $DIR." >&2
    exit 1
fi

while :
do
    rm -rf *
    wget -o log "$1" || xmessage "$1 is down"
    sleep 60
done

    Hope this helps,

         Loïc