Re: [hobbit] urlplus.pl http/https monitoring extension script

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

On Jan 28, 2008 9:54 AM, Gary Baluha <gumby3203 (at) gmail.com> wrote:

> We are in the process of replacing several sitescope monitors with Hobbit,
> and I have found some of the built-in Hobbit http checks inadequate.  As a
> result, I have been working on an extension script which at its core is
> essentially a wrapper for curl.  However, it provides for more robust
> user-customization than is easily possible with Hobbit's built-in tests.  It
> is still a work-in-progress, but I believe it has matured enough to be worth
> posting on The Shire.  I wrote it using perl, but I have a feeling that some
> point in the future it may need to be converted to C (mostly for the
> speed).  However, it seems to work pretty good for me now.
>
> The main feature I required from this script was the addition of a
> per-host customizable timeout period.  Some of the hosts I'm testing take up
> to a minute to return back any data, and this is considered normal.
> However, I didn't want to bump up the timeout for _all_ hosts.  Admittedly,
> this script uses an additional configuration file and doesn't completely
> integrate with the bb-hosts file, but it works for me and helps keep the
> bb-hosts file clean.  I'd be interested in what other people think of this
> script, which is the main reason I'm contributing it now.  I have attached
> it to this post (I haven't yet subscribed to theshire-developers, so I'm not
> able to upload it myself yet).


That looks like the kind of thing I've been doing in bash scripts using
curl.  I've thought about switching to a different language, but I don't
know enough Perl to get started.  Maybe I'll take another look...  :)

Ralph Mitchell