[hobbit] URL monitoring

[Dan Simoes]

Thanks for your reply Henrik.
I'm all for avoiding reinventing the wheel :)

Do you have any suggestions on how to mate a rapidly changing list of URLs
with the bb-hosts file?
Also, I assume that hobbit, like bb, requires a restart whenever bb-hosts
changes?

Finally, has anyone compiled a list of differences between bb and hobbit,
sort of like "Hobbit for BB admins"?  I've encountered some minor
differences here and there, which is not unexpected.

| Dan |

On 5/31/06, Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 12:57:42PM -0700, Dan Simoes wrote:
> > I know that hobbit can monitor URLs, of course.
> >
> > I have a need to monitor a constantly changing list of URLs, which could
> > number in the hundreds or thousands.
> >
> > Will hobbit scale to this level, or should I instead write something
> custom
> > using wget, which can take a file containing a list of URLs as input?
>
> I'm obviously biased, but I think you'll find Hobbit a lot more
> efficient at testing your URL's than any script using wget.
>
> Now, the way Hobbit's URL testing reports results might not be what you
> want - it is after all designed to report data to a Hobbit server. I
> don't know what you plan to do with all of your test results ... But
> I think it should be possible to tweak the network test tool to report
> in a format suitable for what you need.
>
>
> Regards,
> Henrik
>
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