= checkers == Description A BASH script for Linux and Mac OS X that checks the availability of websites and APIs, providing on screen display and voice to announce errors. Example:

http://a.yfrog.com/img864/5027/du3z.png

Oh noes!

== Features

• receive site down alerts before any user
• run locally every minute beats other monitors (Nagios, monit, etc) in getting you the alert, since it is instant and doesn't rely on email
• site down popups are 'sticky' so they'll stay there until you acknowledge it (note, currently {broken in Ubuntu}[https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/notify-osd/+bug/390508])
• logs all alerts with hostname and timestamp for later review

== Dependencies General

• bash
• curl

Linux

• {Notify OSD}[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotifyOSD]
• {eSpeak}[http://espeak.sourceforge.net/] (support coming soon)

Mac OS X (10.7)

• {growl}[http://growl.info/downloads] (tested with 1.2.2) and growlnotify (in the Growl Extras folder)
• {say}[https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/say.1.html]

== Source

• https://github.com/philcryer/checkers

== Usage Download, give it execute permissions and run it with the default values to see what it does:

chmod +x checkers ./checkers

If that worked, edit the file and modify the URLs listed in the ARRAY variable to ones you want checked, then, run it in a loop for debugging:

while true; do ./checkers; sleep 60; done

or set it as a cronjob. If you don't like the 'successful' message displaying every time it's run, simply disable it via the COMPLETED_MESSAGE variable.

== License Distributed under the terms of the BSD License.

See the accompanying LICENSE file for full details

Copyright (c) 2011 Phil Cryer [email protected] All rights reserved.