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<font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">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.</font> </p>
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<font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">Thanks for the offer though, I'll keep the list up as I move forward on things.</font> </p>
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<font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">bobb</font> </p>
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>>> "Kralidis,Tom [Ontario]" <Tom.Kralidis@ec.gc.ca> wrote:<br> </p>
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I started a Python library on this some time ago, based on the FGDC<br>service status checker [1] approach, which can give some ideas on<br>how/what is monitored.<br><br>It would be valuable to have some health check type tools here; I'd be<br>happy to contribute the code and setup a public repo/effort.<br><br>..Tom<br><br>[1] <a href="http://registry.fgdc.gov/statuschecker/">http://registry.fgdc.gov/statuschecker/</a><br><br>> -----Original Message-----<br>> From: discuss-bounces@lists.osgeo.org<br>> [mailto:discuss-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Bob Basques<br>> Sent: Monday, 24 January 2011 11:17<br>> To: OSGeo Discussions<br>> Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geenral question about pinging a<br>> service for"aliveness" . . .<br>><br>> All,<br>><br>><br>> I'm working on a system/services monitor, and got to<br>> wondering about how to best ping a map service without too<br>> much overhead. an "I'm Alive" function in the service would<br>> be the easiest way to approach it.  But that's probably not a<br>> viable thing to require.  I'm afraid of this getting too<br>> complicated when working across services as well, since the<br>> possible result types are so varied.<br>><br>><br>> I'm working on a MapServer (with WMS / WFS / KML) service<br>> first, but this would likely go to other services as well. <br>> We're running GeoMoose, so each layer will be pinged and<br>> rated as well.<br>><br>><br>> The Client is simply a self updating HTML page.  But I'm<br>> wondering about how to set up the actual pinging process,<br>> what's the best thing to ask for, that can be readily<br>> examined easily in a dynamic fashion, without undue overhead.<br>><br>><br>> Also, if anyone knows of any PERL (or other CGI) type of<br>> product for this kind of monitoring I would be interested in<br>> taking a look at it.<br>><br>><br>> Thanks<br>><br>><br>> bobb<br>><br>><br>><br>><br>_______________________________________________<br>Discuss mailing list<br>Discuss@lists.osgeo.org<br><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss</a><br>
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