Tor server monitoring and notification service?

[Michael Holstein]

Why not just use something like BigBrother (ironic, I know..)

www.bb4.net

it can monitor services, and send pages/emails when they die. You can 
also easily code tests (like wget http://something.com.MYNODE.exit) and 
check the response.

Cheers,

Michael Holstein
Cleveland State University

Roger Dingledine 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
> 
>