Multi-Site Status is a Yahoo widget that simply tests all your sites to see if they are up and running or down in a heap of dead bytes.
It also works with all websites and not just Joomla/Virtuemart CMS web sites. Simply add the URL of any site to the list and it will do the work for you.
It provides a simple running list of all the sites you specify. A simple interface allows you to add or delete sites as you require. Each site is checked by both an http request and a ping. If a site fails then it is flagged as being in error by both visual and audible means.
Site tests are grouped into 'jobs', the running interval of jobs can be modified as can the pause between each individual site test, to allow for slow network connections.
Tests can be initiated manually and the alarm sounds muted by a simple yet elegant interface. This version of the multi-site status tool has a slightly steampunk design though this could be easily changed on request.
This widget is designed to cater for multiple sites and will handle a site list of up to 30 sites but the enhanced version can handle many more.
What's New in This Release:
· Moved the code from the .kon file to a .js include
· Moved the playing of the sound to a timer so that it does not go off for every single site connect failure
· Changed the logic so that the widget does not lock up each time the list rebuilds, now pauses for 4 seconds between each URL refresh
· moved the URL testing logic into a timer
· changed the lamps and the about us page to be more 'steampunk'
· changed the font to book antiqua
· widened the text area
· changed the mp3 files, a bell for the alert and the spone word to a more English voice
· added the halfpenny to allow the widget to be dragged and focus to be lost without clicking elsewhere
· added the ring and the mini lamp to allow the manual initiation of a site test job
· added a flag to indicate the status of a raised alarm by just one site
· removed the shadowed text beneath each URL
· added ping routine to return the access times in ms