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djangofan
Asked: 2011-04-04 17:28:54 +0800 CST

Monitor a custom Java HTTP server from a bash shell?

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How could I monitor a service port from a bash shell?

I want to monitor a Java service (once per minute on port 9090) and then call "/etc/init.d/myservice -restart" if the service isn't responding with a simple HTML message.

How would you do something like this?

My idea was to use something similar to this:

wget -O - --no-check-certificate --progress=dot https://localhost:9090

Or

curl --insecure https://localhost:9090
linux bash init

2 Answers

  1. Use monit, it's more secure than writing a shell script for that.

    If you are really want to write a script, use curl to get the content, grep it and restart the service in case of fail.

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  2. Best Answer

    Thanks "coredump" . You gave me the hint I needed to solve the issue. I'll use a combination of CURL and also the answer on this page .

    Here is what I came up with, which seems to work for me. If you can improve this answer, I might award the points to you.

    #!/bin/bash
rm -f listening.htm
curl -s --connect-timeout 10 --insecure $1 > listening.htm
RETVAL=$?
echo "Curl return value : $RETVAL"
if [ $RETVAL -eq 2 ]; then
  echo "Missing URL parameter. Add URL and try again."
fi
if [ $RETVAL -eq 6 ]; then
  echo "Unable to resolve host. Check URL and try again."
fi
if [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ]; then
  echo "Is the site listening...?"
elif [ $RETVAL -eq 7 ]; then
  echo "Server timeout."
elif [ $RETVAL -eq 22 ];then
  echo "HTTP error above 400"
else
  rm listening.htm
  exit 1
fi

if grep -Fq "The site is listening..." listening.htm
then
  echo "Health is ok."
else
  echo "Service didn't respond.  Stopping."
  /home/ec2-user/SITE/stopService.sh
  sleep 6 
  echo "Starting service."
  /home/ec2-user/SITE/startService.sh
  sleep 10
  echo "Restarted at `date`" >> monitor.log
  rm listening.htm
fi
exit 1
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