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use http requests to check the status of a system
pip install systemstat
Or from this repo:
pip install git+https://github.com/dskard/systemstat.git
Use gridstat3
to check if a Selenium Grid 3 has nodes attached and is ready to accept requests
$ gridstat3 --wait 4 --url http://localhost:4444 --verbose --stdout
2022-08-21 18:07:06,714 starting gridstat3
2022-08-21 18:07:06,714 command line options: ['--wait', '4', '--url', 'http://localhost:4444', '--verbose', '--stdout']
2022-08-21 18:07:06,714 checking status of http://localhost:4444
2022-08-21 18:07:06,714 starting at 2022-08-21 18:07:06.714839
2022-08-21 18:07:06,714 ending at 2022-08-21 18:07:10.714839
2022-08-21 18:07:06,721 hub is up at http://localhost:4444/grid/api/hub
2022-08-21 18:07:06,721 2 of 2 nodes are attached
2022-08-21 18:07:06,721 all nodes are attached
2022-08-21 18:07:06,721 2 of 2 nodes are ready
2022-08-21 18:07:06,721 all nodes are ready
Use gridstat4
to check if a Selenium Grid 4 has nodes attached and is ready to accept requests
$ gridstat4 --wait 4 --url http://localhost:4444 --verbose --stdout
2022-08-21 18:48:47,497 starting gridstat4
2022-08-21 18:48:47,497 command line options: ['--wait', '4', '--url', 'http://localhost:4444', '--verbose', '--stdout']
2022-08-21 18:48:47,497 checking status of http://localhost:4444
2022-08-21 18:48:47,497 starting at 2022-08-21 18:48:47.497451
2022-08-21 18:48:47,497 ending at 2022-08-21 18:48:51.497451
2022-08-21 18:48:47,545 hub is up at http://localhost:4444/wd/hub/status
2022-08-21 18:48:47,545 all nodes are ready
Use sutstat
to check if a system is listening on port 4444
$ sutstat --wait 4 --url http://localhost:4444 --verbose --stdout
2022-08-21 18:08:25,344 starting sutstat
2022-08-21 18:08:25,344 command line options: ['--wait', '4', '--url', 'http://localhost:4444', '--verbose', '--stdout']
2022-08-21 18:08:25,345 checking status of http://localhost:4444
2022-08-21 18:08:25,345 starting at 2022-08-21 18:08:25.345155
2022-08-21 18:08:25,345 ending at 2022-08-21 18:08:29.345155
2022-08-21 18:08:25,359 System under test is up at http://localhost:4444
Creating a Python virtual environment:
make pyenv
Installing the development dependencies and current version of the library:
make install
Running the test cases:
make test
Running the command line tools through the development environment:
poetry run gridstat3 --wait 4 --url http://localhost:4444 --verbose --stdout
poetry run gridstat4 --wait 4 --url http://localhost:4444 --verbose --stdout
poetry run sutstat --wait 4 --url http://localhost:8080 --verbose --stdout
Clean logs and Python cache files
make clean
FAQs
Unknown package
We found that systemstat demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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