[tahoe-dev] Fwd: [tor-relays] [ANNOUNCE] check_tor.py: a Nagios check for Tor relays

[Peter Secor]

The WUI usually has a pretty good json representation of most screens, just tack on a query arg ?t=json to the WUI URL and see what you get. I used to use it a lot when running scripts to check node usage but it's also useful for scraping other node stats. 

On Feb 25, 2013, at 18:30, Greg Troxel <gdt at ir.bbn.com> wrote:

> 
> I would say that two nagios plugins would be useful, and also a status
> tray program.
> 
> server plugin: runs on a computer that has an introducer, or a storage node,
> and returns status of that node locally.
> 
> client plugin: runs on a computer that has a client node, and queries it
> (first fix the bug about the CLI being less powerful than the WUI :-) to
> find out if it is connected to introducer and to all servers.
> 
> status tray program: probably exactly the client plugin, but
> representing an icon in the local GUI.  This could use a new interface
> to get continuous updates from the local client, much like the BSD
> routing socket, or IMAP with the IDLE extension.
> 
> I would suggest that firs the CLI be extended to print out what's
> needed, and then the plugins become simple scripts.
> 
> Or, perhaps the WUI has a json representation of status.  This should be
> relatively easy to do.
> 
> 
> 
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