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.
- 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.
I had some errors show up when the website wasn't running that said "end of file" on the line
response = http.request(request)
. I added arescue
around the request like this...And the issue is resolved. Additionally, as @mgorbsky pointed out, this should also handle DNS issues.