# Ruby monitoring websites, databases and more on windows

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-monitoring-websites-databases-and-more-on-windows/163273>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [March 18, 2009, 9:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-monitoring-websites-databases-and-more-on-windows/163273 "2009-03-18T21:39:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![di3go](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@di3go](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/di3go)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 9:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-monitoring-websites-databases-and-more-on-windows/163273/1 "2009-03-18T21:39:38Z")

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Im happy now, hehe, the company im working only using .net technology  
and i  
convinced my boss to give me a small project to prove how can ruby could  
help the company.

Now the project!

I need keep track of the status of the websites, webservices, servers,  
databases, disk space and so on windows servers.

I really dont know nothing about ruby and windows, the last time i  
tested the mri i didint liked, was very slow and not all things worked  
fine, first question, what is the best ruby implementation to windows?  
Jruby?

What is the best approach? Make a ruby daemon to keep track of  
everything and than the website interact with the daemon or the website  
directly ping the services i want know if is alive?

The project gonna be a web application, gonna use Ramaze or Sinatra,  
probabily Ramaze.

Thanks everyone 😉

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**Author:** ![di3go](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@di3go](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/di3go)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 10:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-monitoring-websites-databases-and-more-on-windows/163273/2 "2009-03-18T22:11:18Z")

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Install nagios?

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Unless you _want_ to build your own wheel.

-Rob

Rob B. [http://agileconsultingllc.com](http://agileconsultingllc.com)  
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**Author:** ![di3go](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@di3go](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/di3go)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 10:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-monitoring-websites-databases-and-more-on-windows/163273/3 "2009-03-18T22:17:44Z")

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Diego B. wrote:

> I really dont know nothing about ruby and windows, the last time i
> 
> Thanks everyone 😉

Depending on what you have to monitor, you can probably use SNMP for  
most of that. There is a Ruby library for that [1].

-Justin

[1][http://snmplib.rubyforge.org/](http://snmplib.rubyforge.org/)

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**Author:** ![di3go](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@di3go](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/di3go)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2009, 12:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-monitoring-websites-databases-and-more-on-windows/163273/4 "2009-03-22T00:27:10Z")

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On Mar 18, 2009, at 3:37 PM, Diego B. wrote:

> I need keep track of the status of the websites, webservices, servers,  
> databases, disk space and so on windows servers.

You may want to have a look at Scout:

[http://scoutapp.com/](http://scoutapp.com/)

James Edward G. II