Re: [hobbit] Different timeouts per HTTP check

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

It gets better - check out the "-w" option for curl.  You can get back the
actual amount of time taken to set up the connection and several other
things.
Ralph Mitchell


On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Josh Luthman
<josh (at) imaginenetworksllc.com>wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
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