Thanks for your reply Henrik.
I'm all for avoiding reinventing the wheel :)
Do you have any suggestions on how to mate a rapidly changing list of URLs
with the bb-hosts file?
Also, I assume that hobbit, like bb, requires a restart whenever bb-hosts
changes?
Finally, has anyone compiled a list of differences between bb and hobbit,
sort of like "Hobbit for BB admins"? I've encountered some minor
differences here and there, which is not unexpected.
| Dan |
On 5/31/06, Henrik Stoerner <user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid> wrote:
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 12:57:42PM -0700, Dan Simoes wrote:
I know that hobbit can monitor URLs, of course.
I have a need to monitor a constantly changing list of URLs, which could
number in the hundreds or thousands.
Will hobbit scale to this level, or should I instead write something
custom
using wget, which can take a file containing a list of URLs as input?
I'm obviously biased, but I think you'll find Hobbit a lot more
efficient at testing your URL's than any script using wget.
Now, the way Hobbit's URL testing reports results might not be what you
want - it is after all designed to report data to a Hobbit server. I
don't know what you plan to do with all of your test results ... But
I think it should be possible to tweak the network test tool to report
in a format suitable for what you need.
Regards,
Henrik