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Site Status fetches the page you specify and returns green if everything is fine or alerts you to any problems.
Note: if you are upgrading from a previous version of Site Status you will need to reenter your sites. I’m sorry about that, but it is a fix for sites not sorting in alphabetical order by site name.
Click on the site name to expose the action buttons.
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The add button [+] opens a preference dialog box to enter a new site (including the protocol). This can be a site secured with SSL, but you must enter https:// before the URL. There have been issues with SSL sites but I have not been able to replicate the error. This may be an issue with the certificate if any problems are encountered, like mismatched URLs, expired certificates, or unknown certificate authorities.
The edit button [pencil] opens the preference dialog to modify site information you are currently watching.
The delete button [x] removes the site from the list.
Clicking on the colored bubble (green when fine, white for initial errors, and red for problem) will open your default browser linking to the site you are watching.
Right-clicking (control + click for single button Macs) opens the Widget context menu. Select “Widget Preferences” to: set the interval in minutes between the checking of sites; play alert sounds; the volume of the alert sounds; and the number of failed attempts before the status is set to red alert.
Known Issues
Upon returning from the preferences the action buttons cannot be activated. The current workaround is to click on another Widget or active program window, then return to Site Status.
Version 4.0 New Security Model Compliant
Version 2.0 Now “Generic”
- New preference: Volume Control.
- New preference: Turn alert sounds on or off.
- New preference: Indicate number of failed attempts before full alert.
- New preference: Timer to control the number of minutes between "pings" of the sites.
- Modified it so it wouldn't show the edit and delete icons when it updates.
- Modified order of array structure so when array.sort is called it is the title that is sorted rather than the URL as had been happening in earlier versions.
Version 1.1.1 - Fixed false positive results that arose with version 2.1.1 of Konfabulator.
- Removed check for html tag of any type, just whether the error message comes back.
- Redrawing after each entry is checked rather than after all of the sites have been checked.
Version 1.1 By Barry Lemrow
- Fixed a few bugs that were causing white status dots to appear which was confusing to first time users.
- Added an error count per site. If there are one or more errors for the site, the number of failures is displayed.
- Added aiff files that are speaking warning and alert phrases.
- if you click on the status bubble it will open the URL in a browser
Version 1.0 - Initial release of my first Widget
Future Enhancements:
- Correct problem with the edit buttons not being available after editing an entry.
- Have the lights turn from green to yellow when refreshing.
-A way to resize the width of the Widget.
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Comments for Site Status
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twrleblanc - August 24, 2007
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Sorry, there's not much new in this version other than a patch for the more modern security model that resulted in this widget being shut down by the management. -Tom
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MEast - September 29, 2006
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Great widget! It would be so much more useful, though, if it alerted not only when a host fails the ping but also when it begins responding again.
I would also like to set the check interval numerically in seconds. Some people need instant notice if a host goes down.
SMTP support (for emailing alert messages) would be great, too!
Implement those changes and I'll pay for it!
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Tom - June 10, 2006
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Version 2.0 is in the update queue. It is generic now so there is only one download. A number of your requests have been implemented: timer rate, volume, etc.
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Tom - May 18, 2006
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I am actively working on version 2.0 of Site Status which includes a number of enhancements you have requested. Please check back again soon. --Tom
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Tom - March 28, 2006
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Thanks Tonya, that suggestion is on the to-do list.
Kary, I'm also on 10.3.9 and I'm able to click on the dot and have the browser open I don't know why you can't.
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Tonya - March 27, 2006
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This widget is just what I was looking for—best of the bunch so far, at least. I think it'd be nice to be able to change how often we'd like it to check the sites, though. Two minutes may be a bit much unless you need a pronto warning, so the more bandwidth-conserving types may want to set their own intervals.
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Kary - February 11, 2006
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I like the premise of this widget very much. It checks my sites like it should but I cannot press the "green" buttons to launch the site like the manual says it should do. My question: Is it supposed to launch the site or not? I'm using MacOS X 10.3.9.
Thanks and God bless.
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Kary - February 11, 2006
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I like the premise of this widget very much. It checks my sites like it should but I cannot press the "green" buttons to launch the site like the manual says it should do. My question: Is it supposed to launch the site or not? I'm using MacOS X 10.3.9.
Thanks and God bless.
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Tom - December 20, 2005
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I just tested Engine 3.0.2.79 and the problem I had earlier today seems cleared up, but there were still some nagging issues with the edit button not showing up until the next pass. I'll look into it and post anything I might find or a fix if one can be had.
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Tom - December 20, 2005
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Thanks Chris, I'll see what I can do.
I've installed the latest engine (version 3.0.1.77 --Windows) and I'm getting some interesting reactions. I'll see if this is due to an error in the new version or if it is due to the fact one of the sites I'm watching is hosed.
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Chris - December 5, 2005
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This is a real handy little app.
I made a couple small changes. I modified it so it wouldn't show the edit and delete icons when it updates as roberttco suggested. I also changed the refresh time to 5mins because one min just seemed a little excessive.
Suggestions:
-roberttco's mods
-Refresh time as a menu item
-Have the lights turn from green to yellow when refreshing.
A great widget!
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kage - November 11, 2005
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It would neat if it showed ping feedback as well, see how fast your computer will transfer data.
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Tom - November 4, 2005
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Sorry for any delay. You shouldn't have any problem with SSL by entering https:// as your protocol in the URL field. I have a few sites that I monitor that way. Is there any error you are getting? What indication do you have that it is failing to work?
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Alain Bérard - October 18, 2005
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very Good widget :) but i can't use it with https protocol.
It will be very good with https protocol
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Tom - September 26, 2005
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Version 1.1.1 is now available for download. This fixes the problem with false positives on the Windows platform.
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Tom - September 17, 2005
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Version 1.1.1 is in the queue for posting and it fixes the problems of false positives (which appears to be a problem only on Windows).
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Cheryb - August 14, 2005
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Love this tool! Hope you can fix the false positives soon.
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Tom - August 9, 2005
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Thanks to both Kruser and Monolith for your kind words. Kruser, the false positive may have to do with Konfabulator 2.1 (per my earlier post). If you would like to go over further development efforts and hitting interactive web sites, please email me: twrleblanc at yahoo dot com.
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Kruser - August 4, 2005
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This widget is great! As soon as I learned what widgets/konfabulator(today) was I searched for something which would check website status and this did the trick. I'm getting a false positive for a known webserver that's shut off and wondering if the check is just a ping. Also, I'd like to make it interpret an interactive site which requires login (as that's my eventual goal). I'd be interested in assisting develop this tool rather than build something from scratch. For now I'm off to look for this .kon file referenced above. Thanks!
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Kruser - August 4, 2005
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This widget is great! As soon as I learned what widgets/konfabulator(today) was I searched for something which would check website status and this did the trick. I'm getting a false positive for a known webserver that's shut off and wondering if the check is just a ping. Also, I'd like to make it interpret an interactive site which requires login (as that's my eventual goal). I'd be interested in assisting develop this tool rather than build something from scratch. For now I'm off to look for this .kon file referenced above. Thanks!
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Monolith - August 4, 2005
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Many widgets have come and gone, but this one has always been running on all my systems, since the day I discovered it. I find it incredibly useful and look forward to future versions. Keep up the good work! :-)
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Tom - August 1, 2005
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Please note that there appears to be an issue with Konfabulator 2.1 (XP--I haven't tested it yet on the Mac). Possible timer issue as Site Status doesn't appear to update. I'll keep you posted. Thanks, Tom
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Tom - July 31, 2005
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MERLiiN I'll put those ideas in the change request queue. Thanks, Tom
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MERLiiN - July 27, 2005
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I would really like to see an option to organize the servers/sites you are monitoring. I added mine in order of ip, but they got listed all jumbeled. And a way to resize the width of the widget as my names only occupy 30% of the available space.
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Tom - June 27, 2005
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Thanks Tanner, I'll look into that as a possible feature for the next version.
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Tanner - June 25, 2005
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Very nice widget! I have to ask (and maybe this is just not possible) I have several sites that are only SSL sites. It seems that it always sees them as down. Also, would be nice to have a history and maybe just flag a site when at sometime during the history it had a consistent down time. Then just clear the flag until next occurrence. Thanks again.
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Dante - May 1, 2005
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Sweet tool, keep up the good work! :D
I agree with Patrick Arkley; based on a hostname and portnumber it would be nice to be able to monitor other services beside HTTPd's. Also a variable to how often it should check the service/server. Maybe a threshold for "allowed" misses. (Widget freaked out while I was trying to figure out why my site wasnt responding, giving me a feedback every minute)
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Tom - January 28, 2005
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--continued --
you will get an up-tick once per day that would be attributable to SiteStatus.
Due to everyone’s feedback I am getting some very good information for new and refined features.
Thanks,
Tom
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Tom - January 28, 2005
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Thanks for your comments Patrick,
My initial thoughts for this Widget were to check the HTTP status code and respond accordingly, but one is limited by the object in Konfabulator only returning the response from the site (i.e. the page). Version 1.1 improved on my initial concept of checking for the HTML starting tag to also accept any file returned as valid. So, you should get a positive response if something is returned. I will have to test this when using FTP to confirm.
The whole purpose of this Widget is to see if your Web site is up and running. Due to the stateless nature of the Web the Widget must continually request the target file to see if it is still there. Unfortunately this means that any counter that only displays requests for a given page rather than unique user sessions will increment. Counters that count unique user sessions (like your reporting tool probably is) should only indicate the initial request from SiteStatus. If a session’s life span is 24 hours then
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Patrick Arkley - January 27, 2005
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Since you check for index.html or default.asp (maybe others as well) I can't monitor FTP-sites or other with this tool I can only check websites on any port.
One huge problem that I just discovered is that this tool checkes the sites every minute which creates a hit on my counters every minute.
I have left my work PC on 24/7 this week creating a couple of thousand additional hits.
I can't recommend this tool unless you don't have a counter or if you want tremendous amount of hits.
My tracking tool didn't indicate these hits though.
My suggestion is a tool that probes any port (user specifying) on any URL/IP (user specifying) and based on response or not it will indicate if it is active or not.
Rgds
Patick Arkley
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Tom - January 24, 2005
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I could very well be wrong, but you should be able to specify the port in the URL you type as a preference for a site.
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Patrick Arkley - January 24, 2005
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I just saw that you look for html and htm docs. and don't probe a port.
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Patrick Arkley - January 24, 2005
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Nice Widget.
However I would like it to probe other ports than 80 on any URL. Is that possible to fix?
Rgds Patrick Arkley
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Tom - January 17, 2005
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Thanks for the feedback Sasha, it makes me jump too. I'll and a preference to turn off the sound in the next version. Thanks roberttco I'd be glad to add that to the next version. You can send me the change at twrleblanc(at)yahoo.com. - Tom
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roberttco - January 14, 2005
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I modified the source to eliminate the flashing edit/delete icons at each refresh if you would like to add that modification. I simply changed the creation time opacity to 0 from 255. I also changed the onGetFocus to onMouseDown since I found in a couple cases on my system, the edit/delete icons would show up for no reason.
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roberttco - January 14, 2005
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I modified the source to eliminate the flashing edit/delete icons at each refresh if you would like to add that modification. I simply changed the creation time opacity to 0 from 255. I also changed the onGetFocus to onMouseDown since I found in a couple cases on my system, the edit/delete icons would show up for no reason.
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Sasha - January 10, 2005
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I reall like this widget, it looks good, and it doesn't take up too much space either. However, I do not like the audio feedback it gives, because to be honest, it always makes me jump! Is there any way I can turn this off and just have the colored dots as the indicator of the site status?
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Tom - December 21, 2004
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Are you running the latest version of Konfabulator for Windows (1.8.3)? I'll note that for an improvement. Thanks!
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Wolph - December 21, 2004
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Well just thought i'd add that when one of the sites fail, it hangs for even longer. Hope that info helps in the fixing. Great job and thanks!
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Wolph - December 21, 2004
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Sometimes when I want to Add or Edit a URL, the widget "hangs" and it does not respond until it is done with whatever it was doing. I'm running Konfab on Win XP. It's a great widget though.
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Tom - December 13, 2004
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Sites requiring Windows authentication may cause the Widget to become non responsive. If you wait long enough the Widget will respond to your request. I’m looking into the problem, but I have not been able to replicate it on my machine.
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Tom - December 12, 2004
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Pete - December 12, 2004
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How often does it check the site?
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Pete - December 12, 2004
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How often does it check the site?
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Tsaxman - December 8, 2004
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Just downloaded what I thought was version 1.0.1 but the download was still version 1.0
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Tom - December 8, 2004
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Possibly. I spend 8 hours a day in front of that platform (ouch) so I just might.
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Ghostwalker - December 7, 2004
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Any chance you will port this to windows looks very useful/
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Tom - December 7, 2004
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Thanks for the support blemrow I didn't realize that my Widget was posted! I've submitted an updated version to the review queue (1.0.1) with your correction. I thought I put my contact info in... twrleblanc@yahoo.com I'd be glad to talk enhancements.
Cheers,
Tom
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blemrow - December 5, 2004
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No. You will also need to edit the Site Status.kon file and in the getSiteStatus function change the second if statement to read }
else if (siteResponse.search("<HTML>") != -1) {
This will get rid of the white dots for sites that return valid HTML pages.
After making this change the only time you should see a white dot is if the site's HTML page does not contain either a <HTML> or <html>.
Sorry for not making this more clear in my earlier post.
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o2smith - December 5, 2004
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"The white dots are due to the urls not having a <html> or <HTM> (which should be changed to <HTML>) in the return buffer."
errrrr... what?
i'm only getting white dots. does the above mean i have to type the URL like 'www.site.com/index.html' ?
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Tsaxman - December 4, 2004
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blemrow, Thanks for the tip. I'm getting very green dots now. I only watch two sites but this is just the widget I was looking for.
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blemrow - December 3, 2004
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The white dots are due to the urls not having a <html> or <HTM> (which should be changed to <HTML>) in the return buffer. In my case I'm pinging a site that returns just text. I modified to the code to give a green status for what I was looking for. Works great for me. I'm monitoring almost 20 sites. I would like to talk with the developer about enhancements.
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Tsaxman - December 2, 2004
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Doesn't really work for me. All I get is white dots and I know the sites are running.
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