Re: [OT?] In Search of Website Monitoring Software
I apologize for the offtopic double posting. All indications were that it never posted correctly, and my boss had been looming about waiting for answers.
Again, my apologies to all.
.Donnell
On Thu, 07 December 2000, Michael Schmitz wrote:
>
> > This may be somewhat off topic, but I need to monitor some JSP sites and a Cold Fusion site. Does anyone know of a Linux application that will test the availability of a website? Ideally, if a site does not respond within a specified amount of time, the application will send an email alert.
>
> Yes it is offtopic, and it's not necessary to post such offtopic messages
> twice in short order. Wrapping your lines at, say, col. 72 would make it a
> bit more readable.
>
> Response re: offtopic: use wget and check the return status, add some
> crude shell magic involving background jobs that just sleep() might get
> you the timeout part if necessary. Substitute perl, tcl, whatever for
> 'shell' if you are so inclined. More ways to skin this particular cat than
> you probably wanted to know.
>
> Michael
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