[Xymon] Looking for "page too old" script

[Josh Luthman]

The page is set to expire immediately and usually the cache problems are the
browser/client.  At least in my experience.

On hobbit-clients.cfg for the host (it has proc tests already) I added:

FILE   /var/www/foo/bar/output.png red mtime<1800 #go red if file older than
30 minutes

How do I get the client to send the details about this file?  From reading
the man page I need to specify client-local.cfg but I am not sure what goes
in this.  I'm pretty sure I want:

file:/var/www/foo/bar/output.png

Do I put this under [linux]?  If I do this, will it only have the clients
with an appropriate FILE check or ask this file of every linux box?

Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340
Direct: 937-552-2343
1100 Wayne St
Suite 1337
Troy, OH 45373


On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Tim McCloskey <tm at freedom.com> wrote:

> couple random thoughts:
> Would HTTP cache control headers help in this regard?  You can poll a page
> via wget or some other mechanism and look at the page headers, that won't
> tell you if the image is old but if the page is regenerated on each image
> update it may work... If you have shell access to the server:/image.file you
> could test the mac times...  Or, toss in some logic to catch the bugz :)
> ________________________________________
> From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Josh
> Luthman [josh at imaginenetworksllc.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 7:40 AM
> To: xymon at xymon.com
> Subject: [Xymon] Looking for "page too old" script
>
> I have a tsch script that does some things, manipulates and image and such
> and posts it on a web site.  Occasionally, I have found a bug or two where
> the image stops updating.  I don't know this until it is too late.  Is there
> any sort of technique or custom script that will poll a website and see if
> something is to old?  I'm at a bit of a loss as to how to correctly indicate
> a problem and hoping there is something I can start from already.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Josh Luthman
> Office: 937-552-2340
> Direct: 937-552-2343
> 1100 Wayne St
> Suite 1337
> Troy, OH 45373
>
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