[rt-users] monitoring RT

[Mikko Lipasti]

----- "Nicholas Clark" <nick at ccl4.org> wrote:
> We're going to make the RT self-service interface visible to our
> external
> clients. We'd like to monitor it, so that we know if it's down?
> 
> What's the best way to monitor RT? Are there any built in pages that
> would
> let us quickly tell that (say)

Take a look at WWW::Mechanize on CPAN. Think of it as a scriptable web browser robot that plugs right into standard perl Test stuff (via Test::WWW::Mechanize) if you want to. You can do a lot with it, including interact with forms and submit them.

You could configure a test user account and do a login and logout with (Test::)WWW::Mechanize, checking (with regular expressions if you wish) that RT at a glance page looks about right.

- Mikko