Web Service Monitoring

To test your web service is up and running, you could this with a very simple httest script.
Further more you are able to do more complicated stuff, like login, posts and many more you could not with a simple wget or telnet.

Simple Monitor Test

The following simple example will give you a good starting point.

monitor.htt file contains:


CLIENT
_REQ your.host 80
__GET /your/link HTTP/1.1
__Host: your.host
__
_EXPECT . "HTTP/1.1 200 Ok"
_WAIT
END


shell script contains:

#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/httest -s monitor.htt
if [ $? eq 0 ]
  echo service available
else
  echo service not available
fi


The httest will return a 0 if it was successful.

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