Meyer, Bruce wrote:
I need to be able to write a script to WUG that will telnet to port 80, and
check if WebMail on Exchange 5.5 is allowing a full login, and displaying
the page.
I can handle writing the script (Looks like a version of Expect) Has anyone
ever done this with positive results?
We use something like this to check whether a particular customer site
is getting ADODB errors on their e-commerce site. It was a bit finicky
to get working, but it does work for us now.
Ours looks like:
Send=GET /utils/testconnection.asp HTTP/1.0\r\nHost:
www.blahblah.co.uk\r\n\r\n
Expect=~Connection OK
(damn wordwrap - the Send is one line) The 'Connection OK' is within the
HTML of the returned page. This all goes into a TCP/IP service in the
Monitoring library. Unfortunately, if you want to do it for many
servers, you need one-per-server, as the hostname needs to be hard-coded
in there. It's a shame that the Arguments for a service aren't passed
over (as far as I know, anyway).
Also, I had read in a couple places that Whats Up Professional, Ipswitch
removed scripting abilities. That seems like suicide for the this product if
true. Did they replace scripting with a different solution, or how is this
handled now. I don't think I will upgrade if their is no way to interface to
scripting.
From memory, there is an SDK with Pro to allow you to build your own
monitioring plugins, but it's no longer free, and it's an COM-based
solution, so you'd need to have experience with a COM-capable language.
That could include perl though, aside from the usual VB & friends.
Have fun!
Howie
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