From: Justin Collins <justincollins@...>
Date: 2009-03-19T06:14:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby monitoring websites, databases and more on windows

Diego Bernardes wrote:
> Im happy now, hehe, the company im working only using .net technology
> and i
> convinced my boss to give me a small project to prove how can ruby could
> help the company.
>
> Now the project!
>
> I need keep track of the status of the websites, webservices, servers,
> databases, disk space and so on windows servers.
>
> I really dont know nothing about ruby and windows, the last time i
> tested the mri i didint liked, was very slow and not all things worked
> fine, first question, what is the best ruby implementation to windows?
> Jruby?
>
> What is the best approach? Make a ruby daemon to keep track of
> everything and than the website interact with the daemon or the website
> directly ping the services i want know if is alive?
>
> The project gonna be a web application, gonna use Ramaze or Sinatra,
> probabily Ramaze.
>
>
> Thanks everyone ;)
>   

Depending on what you have to monitor, you can probably use SNMP for 
most of that. There is a Ruby library for that [1].

-Justin

[1]http://snmplib.rubyforge.org/