From: Kyle Smith <lists@...>
Date: 2009-07-24T03:34:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Watching a website for periodic outages


On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:52:37 +0900, Glen Holcomb <damnbigman@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I'm needing to monitor a web application for periodic outages and log the
> duration.
> 
> I originally tried this with SafariWatir as the login is javascript so I
> can't use Mechanize.  However Watir seems to give up if the page takes
> longer than 10 seconds to load, normally I would just catch this error
and
> retry until successful.  However after running for a little while the
> browser seems to hang up, I can reach the app from another browser.  Plus
> the documentation for SafariWatir seems to be non-existant.
> 
> Can anyone think of a better way to do this?  Or point me to some
> SafariWatir documentation?  What ever I use needs to be able to handle
> Javascript and cookies.

Sounds like you're looking for a monitoring solution like Nagios or Zenoss,
which would keep historic data of the status of the site, and produce
alerts when it's unavailable.

- Kyle

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- Kyle