Re: {bb} Parsing information from a webpage

[Rolf Schrittenlocher <Schrittenlocher@rz.uni-frankfurt.de>]

Hi Brad,

you could write an extension script fetching the page content using lynx 
or wget and then parsing it.

Rolf


> Hi All,
>
>  
>
>             My name is Brad and I was just recently hired on as a system 
> administrator (my first job as a system admin) and the person who was 
> doing our monitoring unexpectedly quit. This means that I have taken 
> over administrating our Big Brother monitoring software for our 
> production facility. For the most part I have it down pretty well. 
> However today I was tasked with monitoring something I am not sure how. 
> Basically we have a pool of servers that each has its own servlet page 
> which is dynamically updated. What I need it to do is page if the number 
> generated by the servlet is 0. Anything greater than 0 is fine. I was 
> wondering if there was a clean way of doing this in Big Brother. I know 
> how to have Big Brother check to see if a servlet page is alive or not 
> (we currently have that set up for each server), however parsing 
> information on a page is alittle of my grasp. Hopefully someone will 
> have some ideas. I appreciate any help you can provide, and I look 
> forward to participating in this group.
>
>  
>
> Thank you,
>
>  
>
> Brad
>
> System Administrator


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Mit freundlichen Gruessen

Rolf Schrittenlocher

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