usage: simplehttpmonitor [-h] [-d STATE_DB] [-e EMAIL] [-s STOP_COMMAND]
                         [-r RESTART_COMMAND]
                         url

Monitors a web server. This program is meant to be called by cron and will
send mails to an administrator to report problems. It stores the state of the
tested web server to only send mails when it switch from down to up and the
reverse.

positional arguments:
  url                   The url of the web page to test.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -d STATE_DB, --state-db STATE_DB
                        The file used to store the previous state of the
                        monitored service. Defaults to ./.state-db
  -e EMAIL, --email EMAIL
                        The email of the administrator to contact when the
                        state changes. For this parameter to work you need to
                        have a smtp server on localhost using user
                        authentication.
  -s STOP_COMMAND, --stop-command STOP_COMMAND
                        A command to execute when the web server is detected
                        as unreachable.
  -r RESTART_COMMAND, --restart-command RESTART_COMMAND
                        A command to execute when the web server has
                        restarted.