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StatusBoard

(posted at 2009-06-19 18:55:18 UTC)

It's been a long time since I posted anything; I've been working on a few slackware, slamd64, and jerboa-related things, but I'll hopefully get into those in detail in another blog post.

As a quick post, someone at work mentioned putting an at-a-glance "is something broken" display on a dedicated monitor or few at work; that led to me writing StatusBoard yesterday/today:

If a test doesn't pass, the relevant item turns red. It's configured via JSON (example included), and supports full-screen mode, and has an optional system tray icon. It basically fetches a web address. It supports:

A different refetch interval for each item
A pattern for a revision number
A pattern that must be matched to count as a 'pass'
A pattern that must be matched to count as a 'failure'
Another pattern to limit the scope of the 'pass'/'fail' patterns
HTTP + HTTPS (well, anything QNetworkAccessManager supports)
Ignoring SSL errors, such as self-signed certificates
Linux + OSX + (probably, but untested) Windows

The source is available via git, under the GPLv3.

git clone http://git.fredemmott.co.uk/repo/statusboard/

See the README file for build/configuration instructions.

Comments

A cat is fine too.

Posted at 2009-06-19 20:01:31 UTC by "lamby"

Looks awesome. Wouldn't pass GNOME guidelines with all those culturally-biased colours though. ¬_¬

well thats kinda nice

Posted at 2009-06-20 12:16:06 UTC by "xxtjaxx"

It is kinda nice but I think there is a nother solution for this kind of thing too called nagios its really an odd thing at work we use it to see if our customers servers are all ok in their network we even check the states of te printers and AP's by that kinda thing all it requires us is a vpn connection to the inner Network and opening the website in that local network. The funniest thing is that we allmost allways know that something is broken befor the local admin ^^ but we might change that soon as it will get a bit pathetic for him some day

nagios

Posted at 2009-06-20 14:07:39 UTC by "Fred"