Ways to test web access automagically

[Steve Seremeth]

Bob Gorman wrote:

>At 08:13 AM 1/10/2005, Bill Horne wrote:
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>>I'd like to set up a robot to
>>periodically test if the server is OK.
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>Will command line utilities suffice?  If so you can easily wrap a shell script around wget or curl.  Next step up is to write a php/perl/python script.
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Or if you want real monitoring (granted it's probably overkill for this 
application, but would help prevent false positives)...

http://www.nagios.org/

Steve