Comments on: Checking and logging server uptime with AutoIt

By: reboltutorial

reboltutorial — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:17:01 +0000

You can send email with Rebol and if you want to monitor your server it’s easier than with Autoit, it’s also free even for commercial use :)

http://reboltutorial.com/blog/monitor-website/

str-url: ask “url to monitor? ”
url: to-url str-url
str-email: ask “email to notify? ”
email: to-email str-email

forever [
if error? try [
read url
] [
;pre-requisite: you must setup your email see here
send email "Site is down."
]
wait 0:10
]

By: IsMyBlogWorking.com – better than ping | Rarst.net

IsMyBlogWorking.com – better than ping | Rarst.net — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:36:36 +0000

[...] had played with checking if site is alive in my AutoIt script and it is harder to implement than it seems. On other hand if there is no need for continuous [...]

By: Rarst

Rarst — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:59:10 +0000

@Tom Thompson

Thanks will take a look at it. :)

Overall I am not too interested in whole infrasctructure monitoring. This script is more of exercise – I like to write bits of different code and modularize to have such functional snippets ready for when I need something complex done.

By: Tom Thompson

Tom Thompson — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:38:17 +0000

This is not a AutoIt script but I use The Dude to accomplish the same thing. It is lightweight, free, runs as a service and is client/server based.

http://www.mikrotik.com/thedude.php

By: Rarst

Rarst — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:53:23 +0000

@Ben Zipperer

Thanks for suggestion. I saw that one mentioned in AutoIt forums as well, will check it out.

Still it’s not mission critical script and I like to keep AutoIt scripts… autoitish. :)

By: Ben Zipperer

Ben Zipperer — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:39:38 +0000

Nice script!
I know it’s not elegant or self-contained, but you could have your script invoke blat to send the report. I usually do this to send reports from non-SBS windows servers. Blat can be found at http://www.blat.net/