If the web server is hosting PHP or some sort of other scripting language, why not have your health check hit a page that runs through some checks and returns good or bad based on the results?
- Justin Lintz On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Simon Lyall <[email protected]> wrote: > > Currently I have a group of web servers that are behind a load balancer. > The load balancer has a simple health check which involves it getting a > specific URL which just grabs a local file and checks the content for > "ok". > > On each machine I have a few scripts that check load, availability > of the application, another file to see if the server is manually offlined > and then write "ok" to the static file if everything looks good and "down" > if any aren't correct. > > However the scripts are a bit messy and unreliable so I was wondering what > sort of thing other people use in this sort of situation? > > Thinking further this is probably a subset of my normal monitoring system > which I shouldn't be duplicating (just having different thresholds to > different actions). > > Our current monitoring system is slated for replacement over the next few > months. Currently Zabbix is the front-runner (especially since it > includes graphing which we are very deficient in), do people know if it's > a good fit for this sort of role? > > -- > Simon Lyall | Very Busy | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz/ > "To stay awake all night adds a day to your life" - Stilgar | eMT. > > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ >
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