Introduction
The Pinger Data Collection web page provides information on the success or otherwise of the daily data gathering process. We review this page on a regular basis and if the data has not been available from the monitor for roughly a week or more. The next step is to manually look up the email of the contact(s) at the monitoring site and email them requesting assistance and providing information on the problem (e.g. is the monitor pingable, does the ping_data.pl web form respond etc.)
First improvement
We need to add an icon to each line which links to creating an email to send to the contacts at the site. The contacts can be found in the NODEDETAILS database. You can access the NODEDETAILS database using dbprac.pl.
Second step
Once this is done,the next step would be to automate testing to see if:
- the monitor is pingable,
- whether the monitor can ping your host (traceroute,pl?function=ping), assuming it has a remotre traceroute server
- what a traceroute shows
- the ping_data.pl form appears
Then craft an email with the information to review and send to the contacts.
Requirements
To make the pings one can look at the existing checkdata.pl since it provides the URL to make the calls to ping and can be extended to do a traceroute.