Re: quick and dirty Netsaint plugins with Perl question

Dear Sir,

On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 03:25:26PM -0600, Threet, Robert A wrote:
> I've never written a plugin...
> I have a service I want to check that uses a POST via HTTPS.  Can I simply use Perl's LWP to submit the request and grep the response for the correct response?  Like 
> 
> if ($response =~ m/okay/) {
>          print "0";   # for return 0
> } else {
>          print "-1";  # for return -1
> }
> 

Yes.

Use any langugae that suits you: TCl, Expect, Ruby, Lisp, sh, 
Python, Parrot, Prolog, .. 
anything that has an interface the system exit call.

You may want to display some comprehensible description of the result, 
"web server no longer working ..." that Netsaint will send to your 
contact group in an SMS or email.

This is one of the many wonderful/amazing things about Netsaint: that it 
is so easy to write a useable helpful service check.

There are 'guidelines for plugin developers' in the Docco that may give 
you some ideas. 

Yours sincerely.


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