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automatically update webpage from an email

  • 20-08-2012 11:38AM
    #1
    Stuxnet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,739 ✭✭✭


    Im a student intern, as a project my boss asked me to monitor 2 incoming WAN pipes, I currently get email notifications every 24 hours, with some network stats, the usual info, and I get instant notifications if the wan monitoring ping fails or exceeds a certain threshold.

    What I'm interested in doing is setting up a very plain jane in-house website that automatically updates its page with the contents of this email I get, so that others may view the stats ...any idea how I might do this ?

    regards :D


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  • #2
    Blowfish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,112 ✭✭✭Blowfish


    Assuming that your notification comes in at the same time every day, all you need is a script that reads your email a short while after the notification is sent through, then just sticks the stats into a database which the web page can then pull from.


  • #3
    Stuxnet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,739 ✭✭✭Stuxnet


    Ya sounds like a plan, thanks


  • #4
    BaconZombie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,814 ✭✭✭BaconZombie


    Have a look at NAGIOS and OSSIM.


  • #5
    Stuxnet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,739 ✭✭✭Stuxnet


    ya i had previously looked at naggios when i was trying to figure out, how id monitor the wan, looks awesome but very complicated, :) plus i had already deployed a server 2008 R2 vm, looks better suited on a linux box,

    went with emco ping monitor, it does the basics, but lacks some functionality id like...


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