Re: testing a service activity

From: Ray Plante <rplante-at-poplar.ncsa.uiuc.edu>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 06:29:49 -0600 (CST)


Hi Nicholas,

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, nicolas wrote:
> Is there a simple a simple way to know if a service is currently active or
> not ?
> If there is not, could it be possible for each service to implement for
> example a "isActive" method returning a simple value that would immediateley
> identify its state ?

The NVO project has a monitoring service that is configured to watch specific services (at
http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/vo/monitor/monitor.pl?services_and_status=list), so it's not quite as general as you want. However, perhaps Michael could comment on the the underlying software that might be helpful.

cheers,
Ray Received on 2008-02-28Z13:30:29