Graph plotting from perl script (noob)

[ianwinter]

I have a perl script which grabs a URL and then returns 1 if the content is matched and 0 if not or it fails.

I've got it setup as a data input method and a data source, but, I can't work out quite what to put where when I'm creating the graph. It'll only ever return 1 or 0 but I want to plot that so I can see historically when it's up and down.

Please can you advise how I'd setup the graph in graph management.

This is the perl file (might not be grate as I'm no perl dev)...

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#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use LWP::UserAgent;
my $content;

my $urlvar = $ARGV[0];

my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
$ua->timeout(3);
$ua->agent("WLD-Monitor/1.0");

my $req = new HTTP::Request GET => $urlvar;
my $res = $ua->request($req);

if ($res->is_success)
{
  $content= $res->content;
  if($content =~ m/verified/i) {
     print "1";
  } else {
     print "0";
  }
}
else
{
  die "0";
}

Data input method is Script/Command with "perl /path/to/file/monitor/cgi-bin/checkurl.pl <url>" as it's value. Input is url and output is status.

Thanks in advance,
Ian

[gandalf]

Please see 1st link of my signature to learn how to setup everything
Reinhard