You can get similar results using curl:<div><br></div><div> X=`curl -s -S -L -w '%{time_total}' -o /dev/null <a href="http://www.yahoo.com">http://www.yahoo.com</a>`<br><br></div><div>$X will be set to the total time taken to download the webpage. Obviously the output can be directed to an actual file instead of /dev/null. Curl can also handle cookies and form posts, as well as simple page fetches. I've used it very effectively to login to a variety of sites and navigate to a certain point to check availability of pages.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Note that neither Lynx nor curl will be downloading images, javascript, java apps, etc, which will tend to skew your graphs somewhat.</div><div><br></div><div>Ralph Mitchell</div><div><br></div><div><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 11:39 AM, White, Bruce <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bewhite@fellowes.com">bewhite@fellowes.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">I wrote a script which uses the text based
Lynx web browser and the Linux time command to check how on it takes a web app
to respond to downloading the initial page. I set up a custom graph to
graph the results and we can now trend when web response is slower on our
network. Below is the script. I had to add a space between h and
ttp in the lynx command line so my mail client wouldn’t try to make it a link.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">
……Bruce</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">#!/bin/ksh</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">#</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">###################################################################</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""># webchk.sh</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">#</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""># Xymon add on script to test access to a web site
via the fellowes </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""># proxy server. This is done using the
lynx text based web browser.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">#</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">###################################################################</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">#</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">###################################################################</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">#</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">#</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">TEST="webchk"</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">#</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""># set up parameters</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">#</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">LYNXCMD="/usr/bin/lynx"</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">OUTFILE="$BBTMP/web.out.$$"</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">TMPFILE="$BBTMP/chkweb.tmp.$$"</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">LOGFILE="/xymon/log/webchk.log"</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">http_proxy="<a href="http://proxy01" target="_blank">http://proxy01</a>";export
http_proxy typeset -i HSECS=0 # # do the tests #</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">WEBSITE=$1</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">COLOR="green"</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">LINE=""</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">if [ "$#" = "1" ];then</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> WEBSITE=$1</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">else</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> echo "You must pass a website to
be checked."</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> echo "usage web.sh
<website>"</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> exit 1</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">fi</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">/usr/bin/time -p -o ${TMPFILE} ${LYNXCMD} -dump h
ttp://${WEBSITE} > ${OUTFILE} 2>>${LOGFILE} if [ "$?" =
"0" ];then</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> if [ -s "${OUTFILE}" ];then</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> LINE="</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">&green $WEBSITE - Connection OK"</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> else</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> COLOR="red"</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> LINE="</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">&red $WEBSITE - Connection Failed" </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> fi</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">else</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> COLOR="red"</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> LINE="</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">&red $WEBSITE - Connection Failed" </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">fi</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">if [ -s "${TMPFILE}" ];then</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> SECS=`grep "real"
${TMPFILE}|awk '{print $2}' -`</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> let HSECS=$SECS*100</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">else</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> SECS="unknown"</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">fi</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">STATUS="</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> Time to get page:
$SECS" </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">$BB $BBDISP "status ${WEBSITE}.${TEST}
$COLOR `date` $LINE $STATUS"</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">if [ -f "$OUTFILE" ];then</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> $RM $OUTFILE</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">fi</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">exit 0</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"> </span></font></p>
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<p> <font face="Arial"><font size="2"><font color="#999999"><font color="#000000"><strong>Bruce<font color="#808080"><font color="#000000"> White</font></font></strong></font></font></font></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> <a href="mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com" target="_blank">xymon-bounces@xymon.com</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com" target="_blank">xymon-bounces@xymon.com</a>] <b><span style="font-weight:bold">On Behalf Of
</span></b>Jayanta Kundu<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, May 03, 2011 9:27
AM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:xymon@xymon.com" target="_blank">xymon@xymon.com</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> [Xymon] Can XYMON having
feature to check "User Experience".</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Hi All,</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Can XYMON having feature to check "User Experience".</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">We are having different web based application, running in LINUX/Solaris
server.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Some time We observed all applications are showing running state
but if we click any icon(inside our own application) the response time is too
long/some-time not get the result also.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Kindly let me know any feature is available in XYMON to track it out.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">With Thanks & Regards,</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Jayanta.</span></font></p>
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