From: "Brian Schröder" <ruby.brian@...>
Date: 2005-11-21T18:57:39+09:00
Subject: Re: url-monitoring script question

On 21/11/05, Torsten Schmidt <torstello@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi @all,
>
> i made a script, that monitors some web-sites of our company using net::http
> and net::smtp.
>
> it pings multiple sites and it's based on this script:
> http://habtm.com/articles/2005/09/29/website-monitoring-script
>
> every time an error occures, an email ist sent.
> i want to do this every 5 min as a cron-job.
>
> Is there a way to limit the email-notification, that for example only 3
> emails with the same error are delivered?
>
> i would like to prevent my mailbox being filled up, when one site is down
> for the whole night or so
> as it can be done with nagios.
>
> one problem is, that the script has no 'history' information to recognize,
> how many notifications have been sent already.
>
> any suggestion how that can be done?
>
> (i hope i made it clear -- sorry for my bad english --)
>
> Best Regards,
> Torsten
>
>

You correctly identified the problem. You need to collect history
information somewhere. I would store the error state of each possible
error seperately in a file or db. If you store the state
(online/offline) for each address, you can mail only when the state
changes.

cheers,

Brian

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