I realized my buildbots went offline earlier today but wasn't notified when they did. I've worked to rectify that situation by writing a small PHP script. The lastest commit is at http://git.thefuturegrid.org/?p=mariadb-scripts;a=commit;h=3d26dd7d842e2e5a7... . It currently does the following: $ php checkStatus.php -h Welcome to the MariaDB BuildBot Checker: usage: php checkStatus.php ${URL} ${BUILDBOT} (show a bots info) php checkStatus.php ${URL} 1 (show all bots) note: A local file can be used in place of a URL. You can check individual buildbot info: $ php checkStatus.php http://askmonty.org/buildbot/buildslaves adutko-centos5-amd64 adutko-centos5-amd64: -------------- Used by Builders: centos5-amd64-minimal Slave is currently connected Admin: Kristian Nielsen Last heard from: about 34 minutes ago (2010-Jan-12 05:22:32) or get a list of all buildbots: $ php checkStatus.php http://askmonty.org/buildbot/buildslaves 1 All buildbots ... FOUND BOT NAME --> adutko-centos5-amd64 FOUND BOT NAME --> adutko-ultrasparc3 FOUND BOT NAME --> archivist-amd64 FOUND BOT NAME --> archivist-cnc FOUND BOT NAME --> bo-win-1 FOUND BOT NAME --> centos5 FOUND BOT NAME --> hakan-mac-g5 FOUND BOT NAME --> knielsen-kvm-x86 FOUND BOT NAME --> mariadb-brs FOUND BOT NAME --> opensolaris-x86 FOUND BOT NAME --> pcrews-win FOUND BOT NAME --> psergey-foxhole-x86 FOUND BOT NAME --> psergey-pslp2-x86 FOUND BOT NAME --> psergey-pylon-amd64 FOUND BOT NAME --> psergey-pylon-x86 FOUND BOT NAME --> psergey-win32box FOUND BOT NAME --> sanja-gentoo-x86_64 FOUND BOT NAME --> sanja-mac-x86 FOUND BOT NAME --> toby-sol10 FOUND BOT NAME --> toby-sol10-sparc FOUND BOT NAME --> valgrind FOUND BOT NAME --> vm-win-1 FOUND BOT NAME --> work-opensuse-amd64 You can also use a static file of the page you want to crawl as opposed to an online URL: $ php checkStatus.php file://buildslaves.htm adutko-centos5-amd64 adutko-centos5-amd64: -------------- Used by Builders: centos5-amd64-minimal Slave is currently connected Admin: Kristian Nielsen Last heard from: 0 seconds ago (2010-Jan-12 03:27:32) I am going to try to add an e-mail notification piece so I can be notified when a buildbot goes offline so "ideally" one could minimize downtime. I hope someone else finds this useful. -Adam