Hi Friends,

In my company we are hosting web applications from our server Using Apache and Apache Tomcat. Is it possible to write "Bash script to Monitor The entire URL's " if possible means please guide me to write Script , I have basic ideas in bash script..

Thanks in Advance!!
V.Anish Kumar

Yes, very possible. We can "guide you" to go to http://www.google.com, and put in "bash scripting tutorial", and read some of them, if you don't know how to write a bash script. Also, read the man pages for the wget command.

And also, if you look it up, you'll probably also find many scripts that are already written, that you can look at and modify to suit you.

Hi TB0ne,

Ya thanks dude, I'll Try my level best :-)


Thanks in advance
Anish kumar.V

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Hi all,

using curl command how to monitor a website.

When you say "Monitor a website" do you mean:

Make sure that the content of the website does not change

-or-

Make sure that the website is up and running

So, your "level best" meant asking the same question again?

And again, did you even try to look this up??? From a quick search for "linux curl website monitor bash script":
http://solutionexpertonline.com/2009...n-bash-script/

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Hi szboardstretcher & special thanks to TB0ne,


curl –connect-timeout 30 -w “totaltime:%{time_total}\n” -s -I -L http://google.com | awk '{for(i = 1; i<=NF; i++) if($i=="“totaltime:0.000n”“totaltime:0.000n”HTTP/1.1") print $(i+1);}'

Using this command i can able to get the HTTP error code.
using this code + with the help of conditonal statements i can able to write the script. but this is the right way to monitor the website using script, or any option is available??

@TB0ne : thanks for your link. with the help of that link i get some ideas :-)


Thanks in advance!!
Anish Kumar.V

Again, you don't say WHAT you're trying to monitor, HOW. And there is no 'right way'...the right way is whatever way you need, to do what you want. Bash scripting is only ONE method...there are many programs in Perl, Python, Ruby, and probably a dozen other languages that can do this. YOU have to decide what is best, and make it fit your needs.
Lots more links, but you need to try to look them up yourself. Again, read some scripting tutorials, and the man pages on the commands.

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There are many ways to monitor a web server. You need to find the method that works for your situation. What aspect of the server are you concerned about? Page content? Response time? You could write the script yourself or utilize one of the many projects that have already attempted to solve this problem.

Hi TB0ne,

My requirement is we need to monitor the url, which are hosted from my server, whether the URL is working fine or down like that.

Because in my company we face one issue one time even the HTTP service is running but i got 502 error, because of java heap size prob.

Now i need to write script to identify, to check url is working fine or not, and response time, and all.

@stickman. below i mention my requirement , i have some basic ideas only in bash scripting so with the help of examples,man page only i can able to understand, and iam trying also.


Thanks in Advance.
Anish Kumar.V

Hello,

@anishkumarv: Did you look at the link posted by TB0ne in post #6? That's a 'ready made solution', what more can you need?

Kind regards,

Eric

Hi EricTRA,

some things i cant able to understand in this script.

curl –connect-timeout 30 -w “totaltime:%{time_total}\n” -s -I -L http://linuxquestions.org
| grep -i -m 1 “time_takentime” | cut -d”:” -f2

if i entered this command means it shows.

cut: the delimiter must be a single character

When I read man for cut it states ... delim can be a multi-byte character. ... What am I doing/interpreting wrong here?

Thanks in Advance!!
Anish Kumar.V

Running the command as you entered, doesn't give the string "time_takentime", anywhere in the output. Change it to "totaltime" (without the double quotes), and it will work. Try stepping through commands like this one at a time, to see what you're getting. And again, you need to look at some bash scripting tutorials...

Hello,

TB0ne nailed what you need to do if you're in doubt, take it one command at a time if you don't understand what it does. Following TB0ne's guidance, did you get it to work and are the results as expected?

Kind regards,

Eric

#!/bin/bash
# Apache Process Monitor
# Restart Apache Web Server When It Goes Down
# -------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Copyright (c) 2003 nixCraft project <http://cyberciti.biz/fb/>
# This script is licensed under GNU GPL version 2.0 or above
# -------------------------------------------------------------------------
# This script is part of nixCraft shell script collection (NSSC)
# Visit http://bash.cyberciti.biz/ for more information.
# -------------------------------------------------------------------------
# RHEL / CentOS / Fedora Linux restart command
RESTART="/sbin/service httpd restart"

# uncomment if you are using Debian / Ubuntu Linux
#RESTART="/etc/init.d/apache2 restart"

#path to pgrep command
PGREP="/usr/bin/pgrep"

# Httpd daemon name,
# Under RHEL/CentOS/Fedora it is httpd
# Under Debian 4.x it is apache2
HTTPD="httpd"

# find httpd pid
$PGREP ${HTTPD}

if [ $? -ne 0 ] # if apache not running
then
# restart apache
$RESTART
fi



you can use this script if you want.