My intent was to create a site monitor that stored the results of the test in the Oracle db. Sort of a site uptime / page verify package, I call it tester. The tclwebtest program allows great flexibility in what can be verified for clients/customers.
I am using tclwebtest via a unix command call at the moment. I catch the result, and store it with a date stamp. I would like to use it just by calling run_test, but that is not working yet. It fails when it hits the http::config call. Thanks for letting me know of the location of the http package.
I created a UI to create, update, delete a site monitor. It can add, update, delete people to notify, specify the test file to run, and you can set the interval in seconds. It can be started and stopped by an admin user, it is controlled by ad_schedule_proc, and a user can view the on-going results.
It re-starts all active monitors by scheduling the procs upon restart of the aol server. It is subsite and multi-instance aware. No monitors are set up when OpenACS is first installed.
I will provide examples of test files. This is great for testing any website, verifying uptime for your ASP site, etc., and proving your site is up. You can re-use the same testfile for different intervals to notify other people less often for instance.
I have all this working using the unix shell tclwebtest for http sites. It currently hangs when I try https sites. I would prefer to call run_test directly.
Dave
