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

[Bob Basques]

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.Kralidis at 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/

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> [mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Bob Basques
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> 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
>
>
>
>
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