Re: [hobbit] URL Monitoring -- New User

["Ralph Mitchell" <ralphmitchell (at) gmail.com>]

On 11/3/06, James Wade <jkwade (at) futurefrontiers.com> wrote:
> 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   Down
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>                 http://machine1:8083   Down
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> machine 2 http://machine2:1081   Down
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> Any hints on doing something like this?

I'm doing something like that, using scripts that are left over from
our Big Brother days.   The script sends a report for each
server/port, so I get the kind of result you might be looking for.

Dunno if you can achieve the same with Hobbit without the external
scripts.  If so, I can ditch a whole bunch of cronjobs...

Ralph Mitchell