Description
A Dashing widget that checks whether a server is responding to either an http or ping request. It displays either a check or alert depending on the response.
Usage
- Add the widget HTML to your dashboard
<li data-row="1" data-col="1" data-sizex="1" data-sizey="1">
<div data-id="server_status" data-view="ServerStatus" data-title="Server Status"></div>
</li>
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Create a directory titled "server_status" under your widgets directory and move server_status.coffee, server_status.html, and server_status.scss into that directory.
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Modify the servers array of the server_status.rb file.
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Move server_status.rb into your jobs folder.
Great widget! One suggestion though - perhaps handle a timeout exception as a failure. We just had a server stop responding due to a DNS issue and this script timed out rather than showing the server as "down".
I fixed this by wrapping the request code in a begin/end with a rescue handler setting the result = 0. I'm very new to Ruby, so I'm not sure if this is the proper way to deal with this, but it seems to have worked for me.