uPortal Monitoring solution?

[Domazlicky, Eric]

Does anyone know of any uPortal Monitoring software that could be used to notify server administrators of a failure. I am thinking of something which had a web client that logged into a uPortal instance every so often to check if the channels and tabs render properly. I realize HTTP monitoring software would work pretty well but such software can't detect failures that happen after the user login step in uPortal.

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[Eric Dalquist]

I can see about posting a jMeter script we use for doing this. It logs
into each of our portal machines views each tab and does some basic
checks. It logs failures to a database and sends email.

-Eric

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[Eric Dalquist]

We also have a in-progress (though stalled right now) effort to put
together a monitoring dashboard that primarily grabs information via
JMX. We currently have code and a basic UI for selecting which JMX
attributes to monitor from a group of servers and then polling those
attributes at a regular interval. What is stalled right now is work to
put together a generic dashboard UI for displaying the data. We have
some design information on that side as well just not the time to work
on it right now. If you or anyone are interested in possibly helping out
we can look into contributing our existing code to the JASIG sandbox.

-Eric

Eric Dalquist wrote:

> I can see about posting a jMeter script we use for doing this. It logs
> into each of our portal machines views each tab and does some basic
> checks. It logs failures to a database and sends email.
>
> -Eric
>
> Domazlicky, Eric wrote:
>> Does anyone know of any uPortal Monitoring software that could be
>> used to notify server administrators of a failure. I am thinking of
>> something which had a web client that logged into a uPortal instance
>> every so often to check if the channels and tabs render properly. I
>> realize HTTP monitoring software would work pretty well but such
>> software can't detect failures that happen after the user login step
>> in uPortal.
>>
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[Eric Dalquist]

I've packaged up our script and included a readme:
https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/dalquist/web/JA-SIG/uPortal/uPortalMonitor.tar.bz2

It will very likely need customization as it is specifically for uPortal
and PubCookie but hopefully it is a good template. There are also a
bunch of libraries that need to be added to jMeter for the BeanShell,
EMail and JDBC features.

-Eric

Eric Dalquist wrote:

> I can see about posting a jMeter script we use for doing this. It logs
> into each of our portal machines views each tab and does some basic
> checks. It logs failures to a database and sends email.
>
> -Eric
>
> Domazlicky, Eric wrote:
>> Does anyone know of any uPortal Monitoring software that could be
>> used to notify server administrators of a failure. I am thinking of
>> something which had a web client that logged into a uPortal instance
>> every so often to check if the channels and tabs render properly. I
>> realize HTTP monitoring software would work pretty well but such
>> software can't detect failures that happen after the user login step
>> in uPortal.
>>
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