[OSM-dev] Auto-testing server status for wiki

[Jon Burgess]

On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 23:40 +0000, OJW wrote:
> Now that we have a "server status" page on wiki, I wondered if it could be 
> automated:
> 
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/User:Ojw-bot/Sandbox
> 
> We need to think-up a reliable test for each machine (e.g. download a certain 
> file check it's correct) but I've put together the outline of a script that 
> could upload the results to the wiki.
> 
> http://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/utils/serverStatus/ServerStatusToWiki.pl
> 
> Comments?
> 
> 
> (other than the obvious "why test wiki when the results are on wiki"...)
> 


Take a look at http://nagios.org/about/
The tool can monitor HTTP, MySQL etc and can provide service reports,
configurable alerts and much more.

	Jon