molly.apps.service_status – Service status

The service status application is intended to display whether services are up or down (or somewhere in between).

Configuration

  • providers: the information sources

Sample:

Application('molly.apps.service_status', 'service_status', 'Service status',
    providers = [
        Provider('molly.apps.service_status.providers.RSSModuleServiceStatusProvider',
            name='University of Example IT Services',
            slug='it',
            url='http://www.example.ac.uk/it/status.rss')
    ],
),

Providers

molly.apps.service_status.providers.RSSModuleServiceStatusProvider

In the most part, such information would be provided by an RSS feed. We encourage the use of the service status RSS module, the concepts of which are used in the provider interface.

It supports the following options:

  • name: The name of the service this feed includes (displayed to the user)
  • slug: The feed slug
  • url: The URL of the feed

Writing Your Own Providers

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