Monitoring uPortal at UWE

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#Heartbeat Monitoring

At UWE, we use a single PC in the corner of the office with a wall-mounted monitor which we use to monitor our systems' heartbeat - this runs a scheduled task every 10 minutes which calls a wsh script written in vbs. The script makes HTTP GET or POST (in cases where basic auth credentials are required) requests to several urls, waits for responses within 30 seconds, and checks for a specific string in each response.

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