--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/scripts/couchdb_check_replication	Fri May 06 15:27:04 2011 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# -*- coding: latin1 -*-
+
+"""
+CouchDB replication status checker.
+
+Checks output of curl _active_tasks and returns number of running replication tasks.
+Invocation:
+
+    curl -s -X GET http://localhost:5984/_active_tasks | ./check_replication
+
+"""
+
+import re
+import simplejson as json
+import sys
+
+try:
+    d = json.load(sys.stdin)
+    cnt = 0
+    for e in d:
+        if e["type"] == "Replication" and re.search("Processed source update", e["status"]):
+            cnt += 1
+    print cnt
+except Exception:
+    print 0
+
+# vim: et:ts=4:sw=4

--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/scripts/couchdb_start_replication	Fri May 06 15:27:04 2011 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+curl -X POST http://localhost:5985/_replicate -d '{"source":"http://127.0.0.1:25984/tt2sloane/", "target":"miracle2sppt", "continuous":true}'