Link Monitoring Server (lms)

The Link Monitoring Server is a web service that monitors URLs for their availability. It can be integrated into different CMS through a simple XML/RPC-API. Integration into Plone happens via CMFLinkChecker.

Background

The lms is used by CMFLinkChecker to constantly monitor links (URLs) for their availability. gocept also provides a public lms server for everybody to use.

There is a development release of a lms client for Silva, the SilvaReferenceChecker.

Current Releases

development: lms 0.6-rc1

Requirements

Python 2.4
Twisted 2
Probably a good understanding of Python software since the documentation is lousy.
MySQL 4

Locations

The product is available on our public ftp server at: ftp://ftp.gocept.com/lms/

and available from public SVN:

svn co http://svn.gocept.com/repos/gocept/lms/trunk lms

Andreas Gabriel from the University of Marburg provided Debian packages for CMFLinkChecker (package name zope-cmflinkchecker) and the lms (package name lms):

# please add following lines to
# /etc/apt/sources.list
deb ftp://ftp.uni-marburg.de/linux/debian sarge zope
deb-src ftp://ftp.uni-marburg.de/linux/debian sarge zope

Public Server

gocept provides a public lms for everybody to use. After you have installed CMFLinkChecker you will find a link to the registration form in its configuration dialog.

Created by admin
Last modified 05.05.2006 14:00