Server heartbeat script
Simple bash script on Gnu/Linux or Unix system, to monitor the uptime of your server, and tell you, call you (well, text your cell phone) when something's wrong. I just call this one heartbeat:
We need a server-side script ... the beat.php above:
A few explanations:
* We hit Google first just to make sure the web is working. No sense queueing up an unecessary e-mail to yourself.
* wget's delete-after cleans up the result of the wget, which is built to fetch pages from a URL.
* wget doesn't error when your local resolv cannot find a domain name. This is why we use the IP address. If you need to test to see if your domain's zone name server is running, create a script for that purpose. Don't rely on this one.
* most cell phone have a way to receive e-mail / text messages. Try sending a message from your phone to your e-mail address, and reply to it, to discover, and test, your cell phone's e-mail address.
* Of course, all the "cache expire" stuff, and the fresh-content dynamic server side script, is necessary, otherwise when your server goes down, some helpful cache server along the way will provide you with the beat.php results anyway, from your numerous previous wgets. It's best to test this, despite my precautions ... there are lots of cache mechanisms being inserted on the web these days.
#! /bin/sh -v
while true
do
if wget --no-dns-cache --no-proxy --delete-after google.com
then
if wget --no-dns-cache --no-proxy -t 1 -T 60 --delete-after \
your.domain's.IP.address/beat.php
then
echo "success"
else
echo "Heartbeat stopped" | mail -s "MACHINE DOWN" -c \
your@emailaddress.com \
yourphonenumber@txt.att.net; sleep 20m
fi
fi
sleep 10m
done
We need a server-side script ... the beat.php above:
<?php
header("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate"); // HTTP/1.1
header("Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 01:00:00 GMT"); // Date in the past
?>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Beat</title>
</head>
<body>
<? print(Date("l F d, Y ... g:i A")); ?>
<br>
</body>
</html>
A few explanations:
* We hit Google first just to make sure the web is working. No sense queueing up an unecessary e-mail to yourself.
* wget's delete-after cleans up the result of the wget, which is built to fetch pages from a URL.
* wget doesn't error when your local resolv cannot find a domain name. This is why we use the IP address. If you need to test to see if your domain's zone name server is running, create a script for that purpose. Don't rely on this one.
* most cell phone have a way to receive e-mail / text messages. Try sending a message from your phone to your e-mail address, and reply to it, to discover, and test, your cell phone's e-mail address.
* Of course, all the "cache expire" stuff, and the fresh-content dynamic server side script, is necessary, otherwise when your server goes down, some helpful cache server along the way will provide you with the beat.php results anyway, from your numerous previous wgets. It's best to test this, despite my precautions ... there are lots of cache mechanisms being inserted on the web these days.
posted by Greg Bryant at 11:56 AM
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