Maintenance

Drupal maintenance project is supposed to make multiple site support/monitoring easier. It's goal is to notify administrator about updates needed for specific sites or possibly if cron has failed to run, using e-mail or on-site dashboard.

Project contains 3 modules:

• maintenance module for harvesting data and sending it to central server;
• maintenance_in server module, collecting data. Let's call it a central server.
• maintenance_status, module for returning site availability / client health status to external services such as pingdom. You need this in case central server cron stops working.

Data is sent encrypted (if php mcrypt available) and it carries:

• module update status (available updates, existing versions)
• site name and drupal core version
• when last crontab has run
• server php and mysql version

Requirements:

• Server module:
  • views module
  • CCK (content) module
  • Date module
  • (optional) mcrypt php extension
• Client module:
  • update module
  • curl php extension
  • (optional) mcrypt php extension

Current todo list:

• Server module:
  • #1410504: cron / last ping?
• Client module:
  • #1410492: Create nicer "test" page for notifier module

Drupal 6?
Yes, I wanted to integrate this module into our OpenAtrium installation so that we can list clients and sites. So, no Drupal 7 (server) version has been needed so far, you have client module only.