[OSGeo-Discuss] Geenral question about pinging a service for "aliveness" . . .

[Jeff McKenna]

On 11-01-24 12:17 PM, Bob Basques wrote:
> 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.
>

In fact I have seen some nice demos of Mapbender out-of-the-box used as 
a monitoring service (there seems to be notes on this at: 
http://www.mapbender.org/MonitorCapabilities)

-jeff


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Jeff McKenna
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