Checking Website Up Status using PowerShell

Overview

This script can be used to query a list of sites and produce an HTML report of their status. I created this script in order to get a report of SharePoint sites that my team manage without having to check the site one by one to see if they are up or not.

Download

https://github.com/junecastillote/Get-WebUpStatus

How to use

Modify the configuration file

• enableDebug (1 = ON, blank = OFF)
• Enable or disable the transcript logging
• sendEmail (1 = ON, blank = OFF)
• Enable of disable sending of the report via email
• alertsOnly (1 = ON, blank = OFF)
• Indicates whether the report will only be sent if there are errors
• mailFrom
• mail sender address
• mailTo
• mail recipient addresses. multiple addresses can be separated by comma
• mailServerName
• IP address, hostname or FQDN of the smtp relay server
• mailServerPort
• SMTP server port to use. Normally this does not need changing, unless your SMTP server is listening on a different port.
• sitesListFile
• this indicates the location of the text file containing the list of sites to query

Run the script

Syntax: .\Get-WebUpStatus.ps1 -configFile

Output

The HTML file report will be created inside the same folder where the script is located

And if the sendEmail parameter is turned on, the same HTML content will be sent via email

Use as Scheduled Task

If you plan to use the script with Task Scheduler, here's a sample reference.

Program/script: 

powershell

Arguments: 

-command C:\Get-WebUpStatus\Get-WebUpStatus.ps1 -configFile C:\Get-WebUpStatus\config.xml

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Please report issues in the Github repository.

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