[OSGeo-Discuss] Geenral question about pinging a service for aliveness . . .
All, I'm working on a system/services monitor, and got to wondering about how to best ping a map service without too much overhead. an I'm Alive function in the service would be the easiest way to approach it. But that's probably not a viable thing to require. I'm afraid of this getting too complicated when working across services as well, since the possible result types are so varied. I'm working on a MapServer (with WMS / WFS / KML) service first, but this would likely go to other services as well. We're running GeoMoose, so each layer will be pinged and rated as well. The Client is simply a self updating HTML page. But I'm wondering about how to set up the actual pinging process, what's the best thing to ask for, that can be readily examined easily in a dynamic fashion, without undue overhead. Also, if anyone knows of any PERL (or other CGI) type of product for this kind of monitoring I would be interested in taking a look at it. Thanks bobb ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geenral question about pinging a service for aliveness . . .
On 11-01-24 12:17 PM, Bob Basques wrote: All, I'm working on a system/services monitor, and got to wondering about how to best ping a map service without too much overhead. an I'm Alive function in the service would be the easiest way to approach it. But that's probably not a viable thing to require. I'm afraid of this getting too complicated when working across services as well, since the possible result types are so varied. I'm working on a MapServer (with WMS / WFS / KML) service first, but this would likely go to other services as well. We're running GeoMoose, so each layer will be pinged and rated as well. The Client is simply a self updating HTML page. But I'm wondering about how to set up the actual pinging process, what's the best thing to ask for, that can be readily examined easily in a dynamic fashion, without undue overhead. Also, if anyone knows of any PERL (or other CGI) type of product for this kind of monitoring I would be interested in taking a look at it. In fact I have seen some nice demos of Mapbender out-of-the-box used as a monitoring service (there seems to be notes on this at: http://www.mapbender.org/MonitorCapabilities) -jeff -- Jeff McKenna MapServer Consulting and Training Services http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geenral question about pinging a service for aliveness . . .
You might also want to take a peek at how Nagios does it's monitoring - I'm sure there are a few good examples in there, if not a whole package you could tweak. I used it a long time back... http://nagios.org/ Tyler On 2011-01-24, at 8:17 AM, Bob Basques wrote: All, I'm working on a system/services monitor, and got to wondering about how to best ping a map service without too much overhead. an I'm Alive function in the service would be the easiest way to approach it. But that's probably not a viable thing to require. I'm afraid of this getting too complicated when working across services as well, since the possible result types are so varied. I'm working on a MapServer (with WMS / WFS / KML) service first, but this would likely go to other services as well. We're running GeoMoose, so each layer will be pinged and rated as well. The Client is simply a self updating HTML page. But I'm wondering about how to set up the actual pinging process, what's the best thing to ask for, that can be readily examined easily in a dynamic fashion, without undue overhead. Also, if anyone knows of any PERL (or other CGI) type of product for this kind of monitoring I would be interested in taking a look at it. Thanks bobb ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
