Tor server monitoring and notification service?
Ringo Kamens
2600denver at gmail.com
Sun May 6 15:35:18 UTC 2007
Even though I don't have the technical expertise to code this, I'd
like to just add my name to the list of people who would appreciate
the work.
Comrade Ringo Kamens
On 5/5/07, Roger Dingledine <arma at mit.edu> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I just added a new item to http://tor.eff.org/volunteer#Coding:
>
> Sometimes Tor servers crash, or the computers they're on fall off the
> network, or other accidents happen. Some Tor operators have expressed
> an interest in signing up to a "notifying" service that periodically
> checks whether their Tor server is healthy and sends them a reminder
> mail when it's not. Anybody want to write a few cgi scripts, a few web
> pages, and set up some sort of wget hack and/or something more complex
> like <a href="http://nagios.org/">Nagios</a> to do the monitoring? The
> first version could check just the directory port, e.g. looking through
> the cached network-status page for the right IP address and port and
> then asking for the "/tor/server/authority" page.
>
> Perhaps somebody here (or a group of somebodies) wants to tackle this?
>
> Thanks!
> --Roger
>
>
More information about the tor-talk
mailing list