status-cake-push-client

Python App to push regular updates to status cake

Type of tests available

Ping test

Simple ping test

{
    "type": "ping",
    "ip": "8.8.8.8",
    "statusCakeUrl": "https://push.statuscake.com/?PK=PK&TestID=TestID&time=0"
},

Mongo connexion test

Simple mongo connexion test

{
    "type": "mongo",
    "user": "user",
    "password": "password",
    "database": "database",
    "ip": "",
    "statusCakeUrl": "https://push.statuscake.com/?PK=PK&TestID=TestID&time=0"
}

Postgresql connection test

Simple postgresql connection test

{
    "type": "postgresql",
    "user": "user",
    "password": "password",
    "database": "database",
    "ip": "localhost",
    "port": "5432",
    "sslmode": "require",
    "statusCakeUrl": "https://push.statuscake.com/?PK=PK&TestID=TestID&time=0"
}

Curl test with string match

Simple curl test. The result of the curl command is tested with a simple string match

{
    "type": "curl",
    "url": "",
    "textToMatch": "",
    "statusCakeUrl": "https://push.statuscake.com/?PK=PK&TestID=TestID&time=0"
}

Test if a port is open

Simple test to check that a port is opened. Could be use to ensure a service is running as expected.

{
    "type": "port",
    "port": 3131,
    "url": "192.168.1.12",
    "statusCakeUrl": "https://push.statuscake.com/?PK=PK&TestID=TestID&time=0"
}

Requirements

Python is required. There is also a dependency to the pymongo package to test mongo database being up

pip install pymongo psycopg2-binary

Installation

create the json to define tests and update it with the tests you need to run and the status cake push URLs

cp testsSample.json tests.json
vi tests.json

add this line to crontab to launch the script every minute (use which pyhton to check the location of your python installation)

* * * * * /usr/bin/python /path_to/testRunner.py