Re: Tor server monitoring and notification service?

["Ringo Kamens" <2600denver@xxxxxxxxx>]

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@xxxxxxx> 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