Hello,
I'm writing a monitor service for our EC2 based cluster, it task will be [connect via HTTP/S to our events servers each X(ms), verify they are alive, rest].
I need a toolkit that will be able to perform the Connect test itself and report success or failure. I've tried to do this with Apache HTTPClient but I'm getting too many false positives on failures which did not happen. I've also looked at JMeter which at first looked quite promising but after downloading a 15mb file with ~25 3rd party jars started to feel like a huge overkill.
The requirement is simple: Check that tested node replies correctly in a defined time frame on HTTP GET request.
Could you suggest a library that allows this service? It is crucial to keep the false positive rate into a bare minimum because hmmm... well that means our processing stops until a broken node is examined... (A no-no indeed :)
Thank you, Maxim.