Service patrol

An application to check whether certain websites are online or offline. If a limit is reached or exceeded, an email is sent to the provided mailing list. An email is also sent when the connection is recovered.

Configuration

A config.yaml file must be provided in the root dir with the following fields:

down_limit: 2                   # if reached or exceeded, an email is sent
packet_loss_limit_percent: 10   # if reached or exceeded, ip address is considered unavailable
timeout_s: 5                    # max timeout in seconds when pinging an address
frequency_h: 2                  # amount of hours after which the app will be run again as configured in cron
provider: PROV                  # name of the service(s) provider
services:
- https://www.google.com
mailing_list:
- example@example.org

Email credentials

In order to send an email the following env variables must be provided:

SP_MAIL_USERNAME
SP_MAIL_PASSWORD

Permissions

Pinging raw ip addresses requires sudo privileges, thus --preserve-env (or -E) flag must be provided to read the env variables.

sudo -E ./service-patrol

Notes

• Currently configured with smtp-mail.outlook.com:587 email server with LOGIN Auth method.