Tom, This would have been a more attractive offer for our tech guy, who has since gone onto other things . . . And I've moved aways from some of the deep development stuff.
Thanks for the offer though, I'll keep the list up as I move forward on things. bobb >>> "Kralidis,Tom [Ontario]" <tom.krali...@ec.gc.ca> wrote: I started a Python library on this some time ago, based on the FGDC service status checker [1] approach, which can give some ideas on how/what is monitored. It would be valuable to have some health check type tools here; I'd be happy to contribute the code and setup a public repo/effort. ..Tom [1] http://registry.fgdc.gov/statuschecker/ > -----Original Message----- > From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org > [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Bob Basques > Sent: Monday, 24 January 2011 11:17 > To: OSGeo Discussions > Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geenral question about pinging a > service for"aliveness" . . . > > All, > > > I'm working on a system/services monitor, and got to > wondering about how to best ping a map service without too > much overhead. an "I'm Alive" function in the service would > be the easiest way to approach it. But that's probably not a > viable thing to require. I'm afraid of this getting too > complicated when working across services as well, since the > possible result types are so varied. > > > I'm working on a MapServer (with WMS / WFS / KML) service > first, but this would likely go to other services as well. > We're running GeoMoose, so each layer will be pinged and > rated as well. > > > The Client is simply a self updating HTML page. But I'm > wondering about how to set up the actual pinging process, > what's the best thing to ask for, that can be readily > examined easily in a dynamic fashion, without undue overhead. > > > Also, if anyone knows of any PERL (or other CGI) type of > product for this kind of monitoring I would be interested in > taking a look at it. > > > Thanks > > > bobb > > > > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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