[hobbit] URL Monitoring -- New User

[Charles Jones]

I simply specify multiple URLS in bb-hosts, such as:

1.2.3.4 web1.mydomain.com # ssh http://some.url:8080 
http://some.other.url:8081 http://yet.another.url:8082

This puts the status of all 3 urls in the "http" column for that host, 
and if any of them go down there will be a red alert, which is I believe 
the effect you are wanting. Note: if the urls you are testing do not all 
resolve to the same IP, you may have to use extra options (see "Testing 
sites by IP-address" section of bb-hosts man page) such as 
http://some.url:8080=1.2.3.5/index.html

Another option is to create pseudo-hostnames for URLs. I have done this 
on some Hobbit setups were many many URLs were being monitored, such as:

subpage PRODURLS Prod URLs
1.2.3.4    URL-Login_Portal # http://some.url:8080/index.html
1.2.3.5    URL-Admin_Site   # http://some.url:8081/admin.php
1.2.3.6    URL-File_Repo    # https://some.url/files.php

Using above method, you can define alerts in hobbit-alerts.cfg based on 
the page name:
PAGE=%.*/PRODURLS SERVICE=*
MAIL webadmin at somewhere.com format=sms

Hope I didn't confuse you :-)  I think the first option (specifying 
multiple http checks in bb-hosts) is all you need.

-Charles

James Wade wrote:
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> We have a lot of URL's that we monitor.
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> We have had cases where multiple URL's
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> go down at the same time.
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> I'm trying to figure out a way to have a view
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> that would show me the machine name with
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> the actual URL  that is down.
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> So for example, I may have 4 machines each
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> with 4 or 5 URL's on them (4 ports 8081, 8082, 8083...)
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> However, perhaps port 8081 goes down on 2 machines,
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> and 8081 & 8083 goes down on the other two machines.
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> I'd like a view to do this:
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> machine1  http://machine1:8081 <http://machine1:8081/>   Down
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>                 http://machine1:8083 <http://machine1:8083/>   Down
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> machine 2 http://machine2:1081 <http://machine2:1081/>   Down
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> Any hints on doing something like this?
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> Thanks......James
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