Re: {bb} Parsing information from a webpage

[Philip Clark <bblist@cannae.uklinux.net>]

On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 09:17, Brad Moore wrote:
> 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.

Welcome :)

There are also a couple of versions of the "cont" script:

  http://www.deadcat.net/viewfile.php?fileid=199

  http://www.deadcat.net/viewfile.php?fileid=516

They might not give you exactly what you want, straight out of
the box, but they should give you somewhere to start if you
need to make your own version.

Cheers, Phil.



-- 
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
(Abraham H. Maslow)

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