Simple utility to ping a host forever and log the result.
cd pingmon
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt./pingmon.py <monitor_host>Use ./pingmon.py --help for additional information.
I wish I could build this in but so far it is just wishful (maybe by building as a daemon and then providing a cli to communicate with and send commands to/read commands from a common db):
# start pingmon
# (to also not accept a SIGHUP from it's current process)
# and background it
nohup ./pingmon <monitor_host> &
# now detach it from the current process
disownwhere the better behavior I think
pingmon start <monitor_host>and output something like...
<timestamp> ping monitor requested for host ...
<timestamp> ping monitor started for host ...which would indicate that ping monitor had successfully started
internal question to myself:
in the case of
no active ping monitorshould it try to start one locally by default? or just suggest the directions to do so?
pingmon stop <monitor_host>would then:
- record request to stop pingmon to host
- validate that monitor stopped or host didn't exist in monitor table/queue/topic/whatever