Steve, Would it be possible to model something like this in the manner of how PROAI solves this problem with the specific URL for the Identify verb in its OAI response? This URL could be configured on a repository basis. I think this could be very useful when paired with monitoring tools like Nagios, where the resulting datastream could be parsed for certain strings to test for connectivity or uptime.
Regards, Jason On 5/19/10 8:10 AM, Steve Bayliss wrote: > Hi Kåre > > As a possible work-around, you could try accessing an object you know will > always be there - for example one of the system content model objects; > > eg > > http://localhost:8080/fedora/objects/fedora-system:FedoraObject-3.0 > > Perhaps we should consider using a system object in the sample access URL? > > Regards > Steve > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Kåre Fiedler Christiansen [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: 19 May 2010 09:56 >> To: Fedora Users >> Subject: [Fedora-commons-users] Intended usage of describeRepository >> >> >> Hi all. >> >> What is the intended usage of describeRepository from API-A? >> >> I'm setting up external monitoring of a Fedora instance, and >> I use that >> method to query some basic state of the repository. This is just for >> some basic "traffic-light" surveillance of the repository, >> signalling if >> it is running properly or not. >> >> I expected that I could do the following: >> * Call describeRepository (this will check if the API >> responds at all) >> * Query the sampleSearchURL to see that basic searching works >> * Query the sampleAccessURL to see if access to an object works >> >> I had expected that samples were configured in fedora.fcfg, just like >> the Admin email addresses are. >> >> However, it turns out that the sample access URL always refers to the >> object "demo:5", so I need to import an object with that PID >> for that to >> work at all. also the samplePID is hardcoded, although to a different >> value, which is "repositoryPIDNamespace":100. >> >> This does not seen very resonable to me. At the very least, the same >> samplePID should be used in all examples. Furthermore, if you >> don't use >> numeric PIDs in your repository, the samplePID seems plain wrong for >> your repository. >> >> I suggest adding samplePID as a configuration parameter to >> fedora.fcfg, >> and using that value in all samples. >> >> Best, >> Kåre >> -- >> Kaare Fiedler Christiansen - Software Architect >> THE STATE AND UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, >> Victor Albecks Vej 1, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark. >> Phone: +45 89462036 >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------- >> ---------------- >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Fedora-commons-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fedora-commons-users >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Fedora-commons-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fedora-commons-users > -- Jason Nugent Systems Programmer/Database Developer Electronic Text Centre University of New Brunswick [email protected] (506) 447 3177 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Fedora-commons-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fedora-commons-users
