Demo

http://monitor.seantis.ch

Requirements

• Python 2.7

Installation

Create a new folder:

mkdir webcronmon

Open it:

cd webcronmon

Initialize a virtual environment:

virtualenv --no-site-packages -p python2.7 .

Install webcronmon:

pip install webcronmon

Initialize the configuration:

init-webcronmon

Configuration

Before you run webcronmon you need to edit the config.ini file created by init-webcronmon. At the least you need to enter your webcron API credentials, but there are other configuration entries you might wish to adjust.

All the configuration options are described in the config.ini that was created for you.

Running

To start webcronmon simply execute run-webcronmon in the folder in which you have edited your config.ini

Deployment

We recommend to only run one webcronmon instance and offer it through a reverse proxy. Personally we use Circus by Mozilla with the following circus.ini:

[watcher:webcronmon]
gid = webcronmon
uid = webcronmon
cmd = /home/webcronmon/app/bin/run-webcronmon
virtualenv = /home/webcronmon/app
working_dir = /home/webcronmon/app
numprocesses = 1
singleton = True
copy_env = True

As a reverse proxy we use Nginx as follows:

server {
    server_name monitor.seantis.ch;

    listen      80;

    location / {
        proxy_pass http://localhost:8081;
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_redirect off;
    }
}

To start the server reload nginx:

sudo /etc/init.d/nginx reload

And start webcronmon through circus:

sudo circusctl start webcronmon

Copyright

Seantis GmbH

License

MIT

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