Website Pinger
Ping a server checking that it is alive. If it is not, then sends an email notifying the server is down.
Would recommend using this along with a cron job which would periodically run the script.
Requirements
- Python 3
Usage
website_pinger.sh server_address [options]
-c, --config-file Path to the config file.
-f, --mail-from Email from address
-t, --mail-to Email to address
-i, --host Email host
-j, --port Email port
-u, --user Email user
-p, --password Email password
-s, --subject Subject
-a, --msg-prefix Text to the added to the beginning of the email body.
-z, --msg-suffix Text to be added to the end of the email body.
Any parameters defined in the config file will be overwritten by any of the other optional arguments.
The config file should be a JSON file. Example is below. Do note, that not all keys need to be defined, some can be provided via the other arguments.
{
"HOST": "smtp.host",
"PORT": 587,
"USER": "username",
"PASSWORD": "password",
"TO": "[email protected]",
"FROM": "[email protected]"
}
Not all keys need to exist in the the config, those which are not in the config must be at least provided as arguments when calling the script.