Server Status Page?

[God of Ikiliki]

Does anyone know how to make a server status page.
I know how make it say Server Online/Offline.
But I want people can add their own server.
For example:
• A text box with port and the ip
• A ''add server'' button.

Does anyone know a turturial or a code for this?
Thank you

[Daniel0]

If you can create a script that checks the online status then it should be very easy. Just get the list of servers to check from a database and then let users add to the database via a form.

[God of Ikiliki]

I've found that code on another site

[inztinkt]

start by having a look at [url=http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorials/142/0.php]http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorials/142/0.php[/url]

[God of Ikiliki]

I don't get that.
Thats nothing with a server status page isn't it..

[Hypnos]

This is something like what I've used:
[code=php:0]
$server = "google.com";
$port = 80;
$timeout = 1;
$isitalive = @fsockopen($server, $port,$errno,$errstr,$timeout);
if(!$isitalive) { echo "Server is down"; }
else { echo "Server is up"; }
[/code]

Just don't go crazy with this stuff. Using PHP fsock functions too much on shared hosting will usually get you kicked off pretty fast, because of CPU usage.


The MySQL tutorial was linked to because you asked about storing servers. A database would be best for that.

[kevinkorb]

One thing I've found is the server may respond... however its not healthy and might as well be down...

For example.. if you put in http://www.mydomain.com and it comes up as an apache error cause by a bad config file.  Or your mysql database is not working so your page comes up but nothing works so it might as well be shot.

You could have them create a page called server_check.php  which contains a read from the database.

Then you call their site..
[code=php:0]
$page_to_check = 'http://www.mytesthost.com/server_check.php';
$check_page = file_get_contents($page_to_check);

if($check_page != 'The page worked, the db val is 345.') {
    $result = 'host is down';
}
else {
    $result = 'host is up';
}
[/code]

This should be a little more valuable.

[God of Ikiliki]

I mean this.
This is a example of the type of status page i mean.

http://dodian.com/index.php?page=status

[JasonO]

Continuing what Hypnos said you can have something like this :

[code]
$server= $_GET[ip];
$port = $_GET[port];
$timeout = 1;
$isitalive = @fsockopen($server, $port,$errno,$errstr,$timeout);
if(!$isitalive) { echo "Server is down"; }
else { echo "Server is up"; }[/code]

The url to the file will look something like
[code]status.php?ip=127.0.0.1&port=80[/code]

If you had checks to see if an ip or port was entered you can use this page. If you don't enter an ip or port the page shows an error and won't work.
It's untested, so give it a try  ::)