GoStatusBoard

A simple Go frontend to a json database. This is a simple "key store" that allows you to save statues of various services or objects. Updates are automatically timestamped. Contents of database and be dumped to a html file. "Success" and "Fail" status are considered "special" status and will be highlighted with green or red in the html output

Usage

Usage of statusboard:
     [-d] Turn on debugging
     update OBJECT STATUS - Set objects status
     output - Dump current statuses
 test COMMAND OBJECT SUCCESS_STATUS FAIL_STATUS - Run command COMMAND if exit code is 0 update OBJECT with SUCCESS_STATUS, otherwise OBJECT with FAIL_STATUS

Example

statusboard update httpd Running
statusboard update smtpd Failed
statusboard test SomethingThatFails Service Running Failed (updates database with "Service Failed" assuming it fails)
statusboard test "ls -ahl" Listing Passed Failed (updates database with "Listing Passed" assuming it passed)

Example (one off)

statusboard update "My Foo" "Updating"

Crontab Examples (testing a return code)

00 06 * * * statusboard test someCommandThatReturnsAnErrorCode "My Thing" "Success" "Fail"

Script Example (a simple script that returns an error code)

#!/bin/sh
tar czf /tmp/mytar.tar.gz /myfiles
TAR_RESULT=$?
if [ ! $TAR_RESULT ]
then
	statusboard update "Tar Operation" "Fail"
else
	statusboard update "Tar Operation" "Success"
fi

HTML Output

statusboard output > /var/www/html/status.html