Re: [hobbit] Different timeouts per HTTP check

[Josh Luthman <josh (at) imaginenetworksllc.com>]

I'm graphing the output of server-status.  Very good information!

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On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell (at) gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 2:37 AM, Wouter Schoot <wouter (at) schoot.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm using a few HTTP checks to see how fast (and if) a website responds.
>> However, some are known to be slower than others and I want therefor some
>> sites not to trigger an alert or at least not if it doesn't respond in 10
>> seconds, but for instance 20 seconds. How can I achieve this for 1 check,
>> not globally for all HTTP checks?
>
>
> I don't think you can do that at present, not with the builtin HTTP check.
>  On the other hand, an external script can do whatever you can dream up.
>  Here's something similar to what I set up for about 2500 web server checks:
>
> Parent script:
>
>    #!/bin/bash
>    /home/hobbit/server/ext/bb-url.sh 10 server1.domain.com
>    /home/hobbit/server/ext/bb-url.sh 20 server2.domain.com
>    ..... etc.....
>
>
> Child script:
>
>    #!/bin/bash
>    curl -s -S -L -m $1 -o /dev/null http://$2
>    if [ "$?" -ne "0" ]; then
>       COLOR=red
>       MESSAGE="something bad happened: url=http://$2";
>    else
>       COLOR=green
>       MESSAGE="everything is ok: url=http://$2";
>    fi
>    $BB $BBDISP "status $2.http $COLOR `date`
> $MESSAGE"
>
>
> Obviously that can get a lot more complicated.  You'd need to kick off the
> parent script by adding a section to the server/etc/hobbitlaunch.cfg file.
>  Or you could do what I did and have the parent script run by cron, which
> makes it easier to schedule the checks to run at specific times.
>
> Ralph Mitchell
>
>