I've partially completed the end-to-end transaction monitoring part of urlplus.pl. Currently, it only works with a 2-part test: content check initial page, submit content, content check resulting page. I haven't yet completed it beyond 2 pages. I've also been re-prioritized, so I'm not sure when I'll get around to getting it to work past 2 pages. But in any case, I've also cleaned up some of the code, making it a little more user-friendly to modify for their own needs.
On Jan 28, 2008 10:54 AM, Gary Baluha <gumby3203 at gmail.com> wrote:
We are in the process of replacing several sitescope monitors with Hobbit, and I have found some of the built-in Hobbit http checks inadequate. As a result, I have been working on an extension script which at its core is essentially a wrapper for curl. However, it provides for more robust user-customization than is easily possible with Hobbit's built-in tests. It is still a work-in-progress, but I believe it has matured enough to be worth posting on The Shire. I wrote it using perl, but I have a feeling that some point in the future it may need to be converted to C (mostly for the speed). However, it seems to work pretty good for me now.
The main feature I required from this script was the addition of a per-host customizable timeout period. Some of the hosts I'm testing take up to a minute to return back any data, and this is considered normal. However, I didn't want to bump up the timeout for _all_ hosts. Admittedly, this script uses an additional configuration file and doesn't completely integrate with the bb-hosts file, but it works for me and helps keep the bb-hosts file clean. I'd be interested in what other people think of this script, which is the main reason I'm contributing it now. I have attached it to this post (I haven't yet subscribed to theshire-developers, so I'm not able to upload it myself yet).