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A_124585
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Dec 05, 2013

Custom monitoring of linux server from GTM

I want my GTM to be able monitor the availability of the application process on an external Linux server - hence I want a custom monitor (not just a TCP half open).   I am rather a newbie - so I a...
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Kevin_K_51432
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Dec 05, 2013

Hi, a very outside the box thought: create a cron job / script which runs the command against the process locally. Wrap the command result in html (/var/www/dir). Then just use a simple HTTP monitor and scrape for the results?