Robby on Rails: rbot as a server monitor

rbot as a server monitor

Robby Russell — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 11:01:00 -0600

Most of you who know the PLANET ARGON team… know that we spend quite a bit of time on IRC interacting with our customes, clients, coworkers, and friends. Quite a bit of our coordination of projects, development, and support is handled via IRC.

For example, all our SVN commits are processed in a private IRC channel where all PLANET ARGON developers and our contractors meet and mingle. Hosting customers hang out in #planetargon on irc.freenode.net and play with our IRC Bot argonbot.

This morning… I decided that I wanted to follow the teams advice and start making argonbot even more useful. So, I setup instances of DRb running on every server that we host clients and customers on… and now we can using argonbot to help manage our servers and allow our customers to help us monitor them!

08:51 < robbyonrails> ?argon-moon xenon uptime
08:51 < argonbot> xenon uptime:  10:51:38 up 79 days, 20:34,  5 users,  load average: 1.03, 1.05, 1.00

Stop by and meet the world famous argonbot! You can even use our web-based IRC client.

I love DRb.

"rbot as a server monitor" by had7792@robbyonrails.com

Tue, 07 Feb 2006 05:53:45 -0600

had7792@robbyonrails.com

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Tue, 07 Feb 2006 05:53:01 -0600

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"rbot as a server monitor" by be507@robbyonrails.com

Tue, 07 Feb 2006 05:49:55 -0600

be507@robbyonrails.com

"rbot as a server monitor" by Jon

Sat, 04 Feb 2006 07:13:03 -0600

< anonymous> ?argon-moon xenon shutdown -h now

< argonbot> SYSTEM IS REBOOTING NOW

"rbot as a server monitor" by Robby Russell

Fri, 03 Feb 2006 20:16:45 -0600

Rumor has it… 6.

"rbot as a server monitor" by Phil

Fri, 03 Feb 2006 12:24:50 -0600

How many servers do you guys have now?

"rbot as a server monitor" by Jon

Fri, 03 Feb 2006 11:57:43 -0600

Nice rbot + drb mashup!