I was just reading about this tool today for monitoring which seems interesting. Not sure if has been mentioned or not, below is their site. https://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/First_steps Thanks. SDA Quoting Justin Krejci <jus at krytosvirus.com>: > I wrote something like this years ago with perl LWP. It's actually > quite simple. I ran it as a daemon and had a number of actions it > could perform based on it's previous results (ie up before up now, > up before down now, down before down now, and down before up now). > Then I ended up branching that off into some simple cli tools (later > cgi'ed as well) into http-header.pl and http-getter.pl scripts to > make head and get requests respectively which occasionally are very > useful for troubleshooting. I even added the heartbleed check in for > a bit before the chrome bleed plugin was released. > > Something relatively straight forward like this I like to do myself > so I can make fine tweaks to match my needs exactly instead of > trying to string multiple different scripts/tools together and > settle on "good enough" > > Just my $.02 > > > > > <div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: > tclug at freakzilla.com </div><div>Date:09/22/2014 10:07 PM > (GMT-06:00) </div><div>To: TCLUG <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > </div><div>Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Simple Website Monitoring Tool > </div><div> > </div>Yeah, I was going to use wget, but then I figured I may as well do it > "right" and use perl::LWP or somrthing. There are lots of options (: > > On Mon, 22 Sep 2014, Brian Wall wrote: > >> \On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 8:01 PM, <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote: >>> >>> Ok, before I go write one myself, does anyone know of a simple website >>> uptime monitoring tool? Yeah, I can use Nagios but that's waaayyy overdone >>> and waaaaayyy overcomplicated. >> >> You could probably use curl. Feed it a URL and then parse the results >> to determine result (200, 404, 500,, etc). >> >> Something to get you started: >> http://osric.com/chris/accidental-developer/2011/09/monitoring-web-server-status-with-a-shell-script/ >> >> Brian >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list