Fwd: Software to monitor domains

[Ray Parrish]

Hello,

It's me again... I've been looking at the script again, and realized 
that it's writing to a log file on error, but it doesn't have a 
mechanism to pop up an alert on the desktop that it's down. Is it 
possible to add an alert of some sort so I don't have to keep looking in 
the log file?

Later, Ray Parrish

Loïc Grenié wrote:
> 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/
>>>     >
>>>
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>>     
>
>      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
>
>   

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