Service Monitoring

service-monitor.py

#! /usr/bin/env python

# Tweaked version of Motoma's service monitor script. 
# https://gist.github.com/Motoma/828694#file-service-monitor-2-py

from os import system
from urllib2 import urlopen
from socket import socket
from sys import argv
from time import asctime
import re

def usage():
    print('%s <test-type> <server-info> <email-address>\n' % (argv[0]))
    print('\ttest-type    \ttcp or http')
    print('\tserver-info  \thostname:port for tcp')
    print('\t             \thttp://hostname/page for http')
    print('\temail-address\tusername or username@domain.com\n')


def tcp_test(server_info):
    cpos = server_info.find(':')
    if cpos < 1 or cpos == len(server_info) - 1:
        print('You need to give server info as hostname:port.')
        usage()
        return True
    try:
        si = re.split(':',server_info)
        sock = socket()
        sock.connect((str(si[0]), int(si[1])))
        sock.close
        return True
    except:
        return False


def http_test(server_info):
    try:
        data = urlopen(server_info).read()
        return True
    except:
        return False


def server_test(test_type, server_info):
    if test_type.lower() == 'tcp':
        return tcp_test(server_info)
    elif test_type.lower() == 'http':
        return http_test(server_info)
    else:
        print('Invalid test-type given, please use either tcp or http.')


def send_error(test_type, server_info, email_address):
    subject = '%s: %s %s error' % (asctime(), test_type.upper(), server_info)
    message = 'There was an error while executing a %s test against %s.' % (test_type.upper(), server_info)
    system('echo "%s" | mail -s "%s" %s' % (message, subject, email_address))


if __name__ == '__main__':
    if len(argv) != 4:
        print('Wrong number of arguments.')
        usage()
    elif not server_test(argv[1], argv[2]):
        send_error(argv[1], argv[2], argv[3])