Re: [Webware-discuss] Application monitoring

2004-11-08 Thread Winston Wolff
What do you want to monitor? I have written some Python scripts around RRD that do things like: - Ping a machine, and graph the ping time to see how if it's latency changes - Check md5 on a web page to see nobody has hacked it. - Download a file and check it's speed. Make a graph to see net

Re: [Webware-discuss] Application monitoring

2004-11-07 Thread Georg Balmer
You may look at http://eddie-tool.net/ monitoring system written in 100% Python. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linu

Re: [Webware-discuss] Application monitoring

2004-11-06 Thread Enrique Arizón
Maybe you are also interested in some tool like HTTPUnit(http://httpunit.sourceforge.net/) that simulates a user browsing a Web. It has utilities to interpret the HTML server response, make assertions and even support for embedded JavaScript. So you can program it to test for things like: """ 1

Re: [Webware-discuss] Application monitoring

2004-11-04 Thread Sam Nilsson
Ian Bicking wrote: Mostly I just want to make sure everything is up. We have lots of little applications on a variety of servers and platforms, and most of them aren't being actively developed, so we forget they are even there. Why not use nagios? I've set it up at home to monitor my server acr

Re: [Webware-discuss] Application monitoring

2004-11-04 Thread Ian Bicking
Winston Wolff wrote: What do you want to monitor? Mostly I just want to make sure everything is up. We have lots of little applications on a variety of servers and platforms, and most of them aren't being actively developed, so we forget they are even there. So I'm mostly concerned that the

Re: [Webware-discuss] Application monitoring

2004-11-04 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Ian Bicking hat gesagt: // Ian Bicking wrote: > I'm wondering if anyone could recommend an application for monitoring a > web application? Preferably fairly generic, as not all the applications > are using Webware (i.e., not just Monitor.py). I guess Big Brother is a > little like this

Re: [Webware-discuss] Application monitoring

2004-11-04 Thread Winston Wolff
What do you want to monitor? I have written some Python scripts around RRD that do things like: - Ping a machine, and graph the ping time to see how if it's latency changes - Check md5 on a web page to see nobody has hacked it. - Download a file and check it's speed. Make a graph to see net

RE: [Webware-discuss] Application monitoring

2004-11-04 Thread Hancock, David \(DHANCOCK\)
While it's not specifically for web applications, we've had good results with Jim Trockij's 'mon' package. I looked at Big Brother a while ago, but mon seemed easier to extend. It's basically a configurable scheduler and alerter, with some monitors "in the box." What we like is that we can write a

Re: [Webware-discuss] Application monitoring

2004-11-04 Thread Oliver Bock
On 05/11/2004, at 05:34, Ian Bicking wrote: I'm wondering if anyone could recommend an application for monitoring a web application? Preferably fairly generic, as not all the applications are using Webware (i.e., not just Monitor.py). I guess Big Brother is a little like this, but I'm only rea