Webserver Down Notification

Hello,

I thought I remember seeing a utility that sends a notification if the WebDev Server is down. But I don't remember where.... Anyone?

Thanks
Glenn

Hi Glenn, you can write that yourself with WinDev as a Windows service. Just ping the server IP regularily - either use WinDev command ping(..) or ping.exe. If you cannot reach the server, you could even a mail, start an alarm, whatever .. Regards, Guenter

Hi,

Thanks, but I don't think it is that simple. It's possible that the WebDev Server software is not started and yet the server hardware is. In that case, a ping will be returned. Or in my case, my IP address is dynamic and is resolved using DNS2GO. If my server is down, hy domain name then would be pointing to the DNS2GO server and not mine, and I'm guessing it would still respond to a ping.

I'm looking for a way to actually find if the WebDev Application Server software is up and running and available from the outside.

Thanks again,

Glenn

Hi Glenn,

you could use Nagios-Monitoring. This system is able to check standard internet services and also to check http-services with response strings. In your case i would call the WebDEV Version URL (http://yourserver.com/WD110AWP/WD110Awp.exe/version) and check the responses.

Look at: http://www.nagios.org/

Best regards
Andreas

OK, you could have a hidden static page unique to each webdev site. use httpgetresult in your new Windev system service to check that it doesn't change. If it's different then something's wrong.

Just an idea

Cheers

Bob

Hi Glenn...

I don't remember precisely where, but I confirm that there is an utility coming with webdev that does precisely that... Monitoring your web sites... I would have a look inthe toll menu and the different control centers first

best regards

Fabrice Harari
WinDev, WebDev, WinDev Mobile video courses

I found the WDMonitoring/WDSurvellance tool in the WDTool.

Glenn