crash_hound

Crash Hound lets you script monitoring and lets you receive notifications directly on your mobile phone.

It works via Tropo and a http://tropo.com acocunt is required.

For more information check out:

• http://amix.dk/blog/post/19637#Monitor-anything-and-get-SMS-notifications
• http://amix.dk/blog/post/19625#International-SMS-messaging-The-cheap-way

To install it do following:

sudo easy_install crash_hound

Examples

Registers:

from crash_hound import CrashHound, ReportCrash, CommonChecks, SenderTropo

def check_fn():
    if 42:
        raise ReportCrash('42 is true!')
    else:
        pass #Ignore

crash_sender = SenderTropo('YOUR TROPO.COM API KEY',
                           '+56 ... YOUR MOBILE NUMBER ...')

crash_checker = CrashHound(crash_sender)

crash_checker.register_check('42 Checker',
                             check_fn,
                             notify_every=60)

crash_checker.register_check('Google.com Blah test',
                             lambda: CommonChecks.website_check('http://google.com/blah'),
                             notify_every=60)

crash_checker.run_checks(check_interval=10)

Copyright: 2011 by amix License: BSD.