How to know if urlblast is alive?

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(12-07-2009 09:35 PM)pmeenan Wrote:  There are 2 ways that I can think of:

1 - URLBlast can write an "alive" file out to a given location every minute (location needs to be mountable/reachable by windows).

2 - I can modify getwork.php to keep track of the last time each individual test machine requested work and make the stats available through another url (and potentially set something up so you can cron a check that would send email if a dialer is more than X minutes behind).

#2 is something I've been looking at for the public instance for the same reason.

Thanks,

-Pat

hi Pat,
Yes #2 would be great. I was poking around my install and realize I could check my apache logs for requests for getwork.php. If a certain interval has passed and no requests come in, start alerting!
thanks
d.