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cavpoller

cavpoller

The cavpoller command is a standalone tool to poll various applications status (up/down). It is a sidecar component to the main Cavalina app_status application. It should be deployed in several key location in your network. See the APP-STATUS application documentation for usage.

Setup overview

  1. Select the appropriate binary version from the cavaliba/cavpoller/bin/ folder
  2. Create an API Key in your Cavaliba instance with appropriate permissions
  3. Optionnally, create a ~/.cavaliba/cavpoller.yaml configuration file
  4. run cavpoller
  5. install as periodic run (systemctl, crontab, docker container)

crontab setup 

crontab -e
* * * * * /path/to/my/cavpoller cron > /var/log/cavpoller.log 2>&1

systemctl setup

TBD

Build

You can build your own cavpoller binary. Setup GOLANG on your system and download the latest cavaliba dsitribution.

Use the make build from the cavaliba/cavpoller/ source directory. The resulting binary is in the build/ subfolder.

You can copy/install this binary on other machines with the same OS/ARCH. See GOLANG cross compilation for details.

Revisions

2025/08/22 - v0.0.0 - init from cavmonitor, version

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