Monitoring Capability...

[datahead8888]

It would be interesting if furbot was designed to alert us in IRC if one of our major sites or other online resources is down. We could either have the furbot program check this itself or interface with another program on a designated server. This might become very useful once we write the server application for SMC user content, but we might find it useful to monitor Quintus's site in the meantime.

[Quintus]

This is definitely doable, though anything more sophisticated than ping and curl checks should not be taken out in an IRC bot’s code. That would rather be realized by means of an external monitoring application that notifies the bot, who can then post into the channel.

Nice idea.

Vale,
Quintus

[datahead8888]

Yes, this is what I meant by interfacing with another program on a designated sever.
We don't have to do this now - we can wait until we have time.
Once we have the server levels/scripts app, this will probably become important.

[datahead8888]

We could also have the monitoring server program or furbot send emails or other alerts to make sure we know about problems for major applications. We'd have to be careful not to allow furbot to bombard our email accounts, though.

[Quintus]

Emails will be sent by the monitoring application. Emails or an IRC bot are just target endpoints for notifications from the point of view of the monitoring application.

Vale,
Quintus