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Check your server like a boss.

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# Check

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Check your server like a boss.



## Usage

```bash
$ check -c config.json
```


## Config.json

```json
{
"in_charge": [
{
"name": "Travis Bickle",
"email": "travis.bickle@example.com"
},
{
"name": "Besty",
"email": "besty@example.com"
}
],
"reporters": {
"email": {
"crendential": {
"username": "watchmen@example.com",
"password": "watchmen-passw0rd",
"smtp": "smtp.example.com:587"
},
"formats": {
"short": "Site {site['name']} is down!",
"long": "Your site {site['name']} is down since {happened_at}!"
}
},
"cli": {
"formats": {
"short": "Site {site['name']} is down!",
"long": "Check time: {happened_at}"
}
}
},
"sites": [
{
"name": "My Cool Site",
"url": "http://cool.example.com"
},
{
"name": "Goole is Down",
"url": "https://google.com"
}
]
}
```

### `in_charge`

Specify list of people you want to notify when a incident happened here.

##### Fields:

| name | description | required? |
|:------:|:-------------:|:-----------:|
| name | alias name | yes |
| email | receiver's email address | no |

- `email`: If user's `email` is provided, they will receive a warning email for the incident.


### `reporters`

Enabled report generators. Each generator can customize the `incident report` format.


##### Report Format Fields

| name | description | required? |
|:------:|:-------------:|:-----------:|
| short | summarize report | yes |
| long | detailed report | yes |

Each `incident report` will contain:

- site name
- site url
- incident happened time string, format is [ISO8601][iso8601].

```python
incident_report = {
'site': {
'name': 'test',
'url': 'http://test.domain'
},
'happened_at': '2014-11-01T15:42:00.000000+00:00'
}
```


[iso8601]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601

#### Email Handler

If you want to use email handler, you should provide email sender's crendential
settings.

##### Fields:

| name | description | required? |
|:------:|:-------------:|:-----------:|
| username | login name | yes |
| password | login password | yes |
| smtp | smtp server | yes |


### `sites`

List of sites you want to monitor.

##### Fields:

| name | description | required? |
|:------:|:-------------:|:-----------:|
| url | site's url | yes |
| name | alias name | no, defaults to `url`|


## TODO

- [ ] refine data structure.
- [ ] add more check methods (like ping).


## LICENSE

See [LICENSE.md](LICENSE.md).

# Changelog

## 0.1 小光棍节 Mr. Single, Jr. (2014/11/1)

- Initial version.

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