Script to check website status and send email to users if website is down #1398
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Thanks to @lukeckk for working on this. It is a more comprehensive solution than I had thought about and that is nice. I know this is a draft PR but I'm providing some thoughts. I know there are a number of comments but that does not indicate that the work is not good and valuable. I just wanted to think about it holistically given the comprehensive nature of the solution. Know that I'm happy to discuss and get any thoughts you have.
… shell script that runs checWebsiteStatus script in docker with ability to provide URL
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I'm leaving a comment that I realized the site person may not get notified if the site is down. If the server is in a bad state then the log email may not be sent. This is not different from other log emails but noting it here since it means the hope to notify the situation is lost. I'm okay with this situation and I think it may require creating code separate from OED to avoid this. |
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Thanks to @lukeckk for addressing the comments. Testing found it works as expected. I have made a few comments to finalize the code cleanup. I'm sorry we did not get this merged for your presentation but it should be close. Please let me know if I can help.
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@huss Thank you very pointing out the comments and the unnecessary imports. I have made some updated according to your feedback. Regarding the indenting, could you fix it for me please? I gave it a few attempts but cant seem to get the spaces right. Thank you so much |
- Fix formatting. - uninstall node-cron so gone from package-lock.json
Description
Created a file named 'checkWebsiteStatus.js' that contains the script to check website status and sends email to users when the website is down.
Partly Addresses #557
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(Note what you have done by placing an "x" instead of the space in the [ ] so it becomes [x]. It is hoped you do all of them.)
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Currently, I am unable to see if the email-sending part works. I verified that it prints 'The server is down' in the console when the website is down. I replaced some variables in docker-compose.yml with my emails and credentials, restarted the server and ran the script with command 'npm run status' but no email was received.
Could you run the script to see if it works on your end since your email is already in the database? Feel free give any feedback if you notice anything wrong.
The cron schedule is currently excluded for ease of testing.