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

[Kralidis,Tom [Ontario]]

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/

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> [mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Bob Basques
> Sent: Monday, 24 January 2011 11:17
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> Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geenral question about pinging a 
> service for"aliveness" . . .
> 
> All, 
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> 
> 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 
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