isOnline

Script for scheduled check of websites availability and mail report. Suited for crontab job.

Requisites

You should have curl installed. On Debian-based system you can use something like:

sudo apt-get install curl

You must install and configure a SMTP server or use a remote one.

For example, use heirloom-mailx:

sudo apt-get install heirloom-mailx

And set up a ~/.mailrc config file:

set smtp-use-starttls
set ssl-verify=ignore
set smtp="$SMTP_SERVER:$SMTP_PORT"
set smtp-auth=login
set smtp-auth-user=$FROM_EMAIL_ADDRESS
set smtp-auth-password=$EMAIL_ACCOUNT_PASSWORD
set from="$FROM_EMAIL_ADDRESS($FRIENDLY_NAME)"

Config

1. Create emails.lst file and fill it with each email in new line (as in emails.lst.example). leave an empty line in the end.

2. Create websites.lst file and fill it with each website in a new line (as in websites.lst.example). leave an empty line in the end.

   Note that the websites must include the used protocol (http://, for example).

Add to crontab

Add the following lines to crontab config ($ crontab -e)

THIS_IS_CRON=1
*/30 * * * * /path/to/isOnline/checker.sh

in this example crontab will run checker.sh every 30min.

by ET.