WebsitesPing - For OSX

Written By Jason Skipper

WebsitePing is a program that will periodically check to see if websites are up and running, and if at some moment a website is down, it will email a notification to the user.

Installation:

• Unzip the WebsitePing_vX.XX.zip file.
• Run the WebsitePingInstall.sh file
• Right click on the file
• Open With…
• Choose “Terminal” (If not in listed Applications, choose “Other”, uncheck “Recommended Applications” and then choose Terminal)
• Go through the Setup

What Does This Do?

• Installs the Application under /Applications/WebsitePing/WebsitesPing.sh
• Installs a script with instructions to run every 15 minutes under ~/Library/LaunchAgents/WebsitesPing.plist

How to Add New Websites?

• Re-Run the Installer
• Restart Your Machine

How to Know That It Is Working?

• You will receive an email if any of your websites go down.
• You can see all successful tries in the Log file that is found in /Applications/WebsitesPing/WebsitesPing.log

How to Uninstall?

• Run the WebsitesPingUninstaller.sh provided in the Zip file.