PUSH Client Wizard

Last year, we introduced a new feature called PUSH Checks. This check type allows your server to push numeric metrics into our system, track the metrics, send a heartbeat, and receive alerts based on the results. This is a powerful tool, and we use it internally at NodePing to monitor system load, backup processes, gather metrics from logs, and a variety of other things. We’re also glad to hear about customers using this feature in interesting ways as well.

However, until now setting up a PUSH check could be challenging. You would have to create the check, download a copy of the client and configure it with the Check ID and Checktoken as well as configure the metrics. So today we’re releasing a PUSH Client Wizard (available on GitHub) that makes PUSH Checks really easy to configure and deploy across your systems using an interactive command line wizard. This Python 3 client is able to run on any system with Python 3.5 or newer, and has been tested on Linux, Windows 10, and FreeBSD.

Features

So what can it do? The wizard lets you list your existing PUSH checks, create new PUSH checks, and delete PUSH checks you no longer want.

When listing checks, it will show information such as:

• Your check’s label
• ID
• Checktoken
• If the check will fail when its results are old
• PASS/FAIL status
• If it’s enabled/disabled
• Run Interval

When creating a check you can configure all sorts of information for the check such as:

• The client you will use (POSIX, Python, Python3, PowerShell)
• Information about the check (Label, interval, enabled, public reports, fail when old)
• Metrics to gather for the check (or none for basic heartbeat functionality) and values for pass/fail
• Contacts and their notification schedules
• Client configuration
• Remote/local deployment

Configuring the client is an optional step if you want to do it yourself. When configuring the client, you have the ability to deploy the new PUSH check client locally or remotely over SSH! Once the client has been configured, a cron job or Windows Task Scheduler event information will be provided so you can simply copy/paste the provided information at the end.

This tool will allow you to quickly and easily manage your PUSH checks so you can monitor your systems with PUSH checks in less time.

Give the wizard a try today!

We encourage pull requests for new features so if you make changes you think others would find useful, please do share.

If you aren’t using NodePing yet, you can sign up for a free, 15-day trial and test out our new PUSH checks yourself and give the new wizard a try.