NAME

VBTK::Tcp - Tcp Listener Monitoring

SYNOPSIS

  $d = new VBTK::Tcp (
    Interval       => 60,
    Host           => 'myoracle',
    Port           => 1521,
    VBServerURI    => 'http://myvbserver:4712',
    VBHeader       => [ 
       'Time              Response Time (sec)',
       '----------------- -------------------' ],
    VBDetail       => [ 
       '@<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< @>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>',
       '$time             $data[0]' ],
  );

  $d->addVBObj (
    VBObjName         => '.oracle.db.logincount',
    Rules             => [
      '$data[0] > 20' => 'Warning',
      '$data[0] > 40' => 'Failed' ],
    ExpireAfter       => '3 min',
    Description       => qq(
      This object monitors the number of users logged into the database),
  );

  &VBTK::runAll;

DESCRIPTION

This perl library provides the ability to do simple monitoring of any TCP listener. It simply connects to the specified host and port and measures the elapsed time it takes to make the connection. If the connection attempt fails or takes longer than 'Timeout' seconds, then the status of the corresponding VBObjects will be set to the 'ErrorStatus' value.

Note that the 'new VBTK::Tcp' and '$d->addVBObj' lines just initialize and register the objects. It's the &VBTK::runAll which starts the monitoring.

PUBLIC METHODS

The following methods are available to the common user:

$s = new VBTK::Tcp (<parm1> => <val1>, <parm2> => <val2>, ...)

The allowed parameters are as follows.

Interval

The interval (in seconds) on which the SMTP send should be attempted. (Defaults to 300)

    Interval => 300,

Host

A string containing the host to connect to. (Required)

    Host => 'myhost',

Port

A number indicating the TCP port to connect to. (Required)

    Port => 1521,

VBHeader

An array containing strings to be used as header lines when transmitting results to the VB Server process. (Defaults to the following)

     VBHeader => [ 
        'Time              Resp Time (sec)',
        '----------------- ---------------' ];

VBDetail

An array containing strings to be used to format the detail lines which will be sent to the VB Server process. These strings can make use of the Perl picture format syntax. Be sure to either use single-quotes or escape out the '$' vars so that they don't get evaluated until later. (Defaults to the following)

    VBDetail => [
        '@<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< @>>>>>>>>>>>>>>',
        '$time             $data[0]' ],

The following variables will be set just before these detail lines are evaluated:

$time

A datestamp of the form YYYYMMDD-HH:MM:SS

@data

An array, the first element of which contains the elapsed time in seconds of the connection attempt.

@delta

An array containing the delta's calculated between the current @data and the previous @data. In multi-row output, the row number is used to match up multiple @data arrays with their previous @data values to calulate the deltas. These deltas are most useful when monitoring the change in counters.

VBServerURI

A URI which specifies which VB Server to report results to. Defaults to the environment variable $VBURI.

    VBServerURI => 'http://myvbserver:4712',

LogFile

A string containing the path to a file where a log file should be written. Leave blank if no log file is desired. (Defaults to undef).

    LogFile => '/var/log/tcp.1521.log',

LogHeader

Same as VBHeader, but to be used in formatting the log file.

LogDetail

Same as VBDetail, but to be used in formatting the log file.

RotateLogAt

A string containing a date/time expression indicating when the log file should be rotated. When the log is rotated, the current log will have a timestamp appended to the end of it after which logging will continue to a new file with the original name. The expression will be passed to Date::Manip so it can be just about any recognizable date/time expression. (Defaults to 12:00am)

    RotateLogAt => '12:00am',

ErrorStatus

A string containing a status to which any VBObjects should be set if there is an error while attempting to connect to the TCP listener. (Defaults to Warning).

    ErrorStatus => 'Warning',

$o = $s->addVBObj(<parm1> => <val1>, <parm2> => <val2>, ...)

The 'addVBObj' is used to define VBObjects which will appear on the VBServer to which status reports are transmitted. See VBTK::Parser for a detailed description of the main parameters.

PRIVATE METHODS

The following private methods are used internally. Do not try to use them unless you know what you are doing.

To be documented...

SEE ALSO

VBTK::Server VBTK::Wrapper

AUTHOR

Brent Henry, vbtoolkit@yahoo.com

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 1996-2002 Brent Henry

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation available at: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.