Monitor Server Status

[inforeqd]

I have been looking on the web for some examples but haven't found anything to my liking. What I would like to build is a combination of CGI and perl. Basically, what I need it to do is just run a ping using cron. Then report back via a webpage if a server is up or down. As an addition to this, I was thinking of maybe trying to put in some historical items such as "server was up x and down y"

Has anyone done something like this?? If so could you share your experience or for that matter just some ideas on the best way that you all may feel this should be handled.

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[dmsd40]

CGI/perl aren't as popular as they used to be. In searching, I was able to find several possible ways to do this using PHP, but I found no perl scripts. I'm not well versed enough in perl to write one for you, either, if it *is* possible.

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[razalas]

not sure what kind of systems environment you work in, but our sysadmin uses a product called webmin which seems like it covers the entire spectrum of which you have just started to scratch the surface off.

see here

http://www.webmin.com/index.html

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[travs69]

I just don't find using php for the server side of things very useful. It's great for the web front end to my code, but I do all of my data gather/processing, etc in perl write it to a db.

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[goBoating]

Perl and CGI will do it, just fine and very competently. I'd do it as two applications. One would be command line driven and called by the cron job. It would simple write its results to a file or DB. The second would simply be a web 'view' of the data that has been written by the first app.

The web view app could be CGI or javascript or PHP or whatever. You would just need some language that can read the data and render and web page.

'hope this helps

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