is-server-alive

This packages identify if a server is alive and can check if a service is running on this server doing a request that you have to configure easily, for example with fetch-node module, just follow the instructions.

Author: Jordi Piqueras.

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Pre-requisites

First of all you need to install node.js and npm to run this code. You can do it on a Linux, MacOs, Windows even in your mobile phone like me.

How to Install

npm install is-server-alive

Before use it

Before use it you need to create a Telegram bot, follow the instructions.

1. On your Telegram App clic the pencil to create a new message.
2. On your Telegram App clic the magnifying glass to search a user and write: @botfather
3. Go to the chat and use commands with the slash symbol / to execute it
4. Create a new bot: /newbot
5. Store the token on your config value.
6. Install the code with npm install.
7. Use the code of showMyChatId to get your chatId, while is executing then write something to the bot, this will show you a message with your id, put it on the code.

const showMyChatId = require('is-server-alive').showMyChatId

const token = 'INTRODUCE_YOUR_BOT_TOKEN_HERE'

showMyChatId(token)

How to use the API

const isServerAlive = require('is-server-alive').isServerAlive

const config = {
    token: 'INTRODUCE_YOUR_BOT_TOKEN_HERE',
    chatId: INTRODUCE_YOUR_CHAT_ID,
    targets: ['google.com', '121.113.113.41'], // Array of strings: Domains and URLs
    options: {
        timeout: 5, // Time to wait for the ping response.
        extra: ["-i 2"], // Number of ping petitions.
    },
    intervalTimeout: 5000, // Interval of the request against the server.
}

isServerAlive(config)

Execute and Monit

After complete the information of your bot/chat install pm2 and prepare for monit your aplication:

npm install pm2

You can put this scripts on your package.json:

"scripts": {
    "start": "pm2 start your_file",
    "stop": "pm2 stop your_file_name",
    "status": "pm2 status",
    "list": "pm2 list",
    "monit": "pm2 monit",
    "kill": "pm2 kill"
}

Community

I give an special mention to the GitHub community:

• node-telegram-bot-api: https://github.com/yagop/node-telegram-bot-api
• Ping: https://github.com/danielzzz/node-ping
• P2m: https://github.com/Unitech/pm2
• Telegram API: https://core.telegram.org/