To be notified when any services are down you need to fill in a gmail email and password and a recipient email address. It is highly adviced (and required if 2FA is enabled) to create a unique App Password at: https://myaccount.google.com/apppasswords.

Go to the ISP's page for checking service status by address https://www.telenor.no/privat/kundeservice/dmf/. After entering your address copy the pages url.

If my information was:

sender: no-reply@midboe.com
password: pass123
recipient: kevin@midboe.com
search url: https://www.telenor.no/privat/kundeservice/dmf/sok/168443300

then my config would look like:

module.exports = {
  senderEmail: 'no-reply@midboe.com',
  senderPassword: 'pass123',
  recipientEmail: 'kevin@midboe.com',
  url: 'https://www.telenor.no/privat/kundeservice/dmf/sok/168443300',
  debug: false
}

Debug can be set to true for some more feedback about whats happening during execution.

Optional

Can also set pdfFilename to overwrite filename prefix (default: telenor-downtime).

Usage

We have two commands start & scrape. Start boots calls express server to start to server webpage for visual representation of data; and Scrape for checking and logging contents of ISP monitor page.

Start the webserver:

yarn start

Open http://localhost:3000/ in your browser.

Run the scraper:

yarn scrape

This saves a pdf of the page to pdfExports/ within the project folder, and logs the uptime status to db.

Running as a service

If on any linux platform you should have systemd installed. We want to create a service that both runs & restarts our webserver if necessary and want a scheduled job to run for scraping.

Remember to replace YOUR_PROJECT_DIRECTORY w/ the full path to where you have the ISPDowntimeMonitor/ folder.

Main server start service:

# /etc/systemd/system/ispmonitor.service

[Unit]
Description=ISP monitor daemon
Wants=isp-scraper.timer

[Service]
WorkingDirectory=YOUR_PROJECT_DIRECTORY
ExecStart=/usr/bin/yarn start
 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/docker start mongodb
Restart=always

# Restart service after 10 seconds if node service crashes
RestartSec=10

# Output to syslog
StandardOutput=syslog
StandardError=syslog
SyslogIdentifier=ispmonitor

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Timer service:

# /etc/systemd/system/isp-scraper.timer

[Unit]
Description=Run scraper for isp monitor every 30 minutes.

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Node and yarn setup

Node

We need node to run our javascript and yarn as our package manager to install required javascript packages. First check if you have node installed with by running node -v in your terminal.

If not check out nodejs.org's download page here: https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/.

Ubuntu/raspberry pi users can add node to apt following these instructions: https://github.com/nodesource/distributions/blob/master/README.md#installation-instructions

Yarn

To get yarn check their site for always up-to-date info here https://classic.yarnpkg.com/en/docs/install/#mac-stable.

One of the easiest ways to install Yarn on macOS and generic Unix environments is via our shell script. You can install Yarn by running the following code in your terminal:

curl -o- -L https://yarnpkg.com/install.sh | bash

We are done! Jump back up to continue project setup!