Why not just use something like BigBrother (ironic, I know..)
www.bb4.net
it can monitor services, and send pages/emails when they die. You can
also easily code tests (like wget http://something.com.MYNODE.exit) and
check the response.
Cheers,
Michael Holstein
Cleveland State University
Roger Dingledine wrote:
Hi folks,
I just added a new item to http://tor.eff.org/volunteer#Coding:
Sometimes Tor servers crash, or the computers they're on fall off the
network, or other accidents happen. Some Tor operators have expressed
an interest in signing up to a "notifying" service that periodically
checks whether their Tor server is healthy and sends them a reminder
mail when it's not. Anybody want to write a few cgi scripts, a few web
pages, and set up some sort of wget hack and/or something more complex
like <a href="http://nagios.org/";>Nagios</a> to do the monitoring? The
first version could check just the directory port, e.g. looking through
the cached network-status page for the right IP address and port and
then asking for the "/tor/server/authority" page.
Perhaps somebody here (or a group of somebodies) wants to tackle this?
Thanks!
--Roger
