VBTK::Tcp - Tcp Listener Monitoring
$d = new VBTK::Tcp ( Interval => 60, Host => 'myoracle', Port => 1521, VBServerURI => 'http://myvbserver:4712', VBHeader => [ 'Time Response Time (sec)', '----------------- -------------------' ], VBDetail => [ '@<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< @>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>', '$time $data[0]' ], ); $d->addVBObj ( VBObjName => '.oracle.db.logincount', Rules => [ '$data[0] > 20' => 'Warning', '$data[0] > 40' => 'Failed' ], ExpireAfter => '3 min', Description => qq( This object monitors the number of users logged into the database), ); &VBTK::runAll;
This perl library provides the ability to do simple monitoring of any TCP listener. It simply connects to the specified host and port and measures the elapsed time it takes to make the connection. If the connection attempt fails or takes longer than 'Timeout' seconds, then the status of the corresponding VBObjects will be set to the 'ErrorStatus' value.
Note that the 'new VBTK::Tcp' and '$d->addVBObj' lines just initialize and register the objects. It's the &VBTK::runAll which starts the monitoring.
The following methods are available to the common user:
The allowed parameters are as follows.
The interval (in seconds) on which the SQL query should be attempted. (Defaults to 60)
Interval => 60,
A string containing the host to connect to. (Required)
Host => 'myhost',
A number indicating the TCP port to connect to. (Required)
Port => 1521,
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)', '----------------- ---------------' ];
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:
A datestamp of the form YYYYMMDD-HH:MM:SS
An array, the first element of which contains the elapsed time in seconds of the connection attempt.
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.
A URI which specifies which VB Server to report results to. Defaults to the environment variable $VBURI.
VBServerURI => 'http://myvbserver:4712',
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',
Same as VBHeader, but to be used in formatting the log file.
Same as VBDetail, but to be used in formatting the log file.
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',
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',
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.
The following private methods are used internally. Do not try to use them unless you know what you are doing.
To be documented...
VBTK::Server VBTK::Wrapper
Brent Henry, vbtoolkit@yahoo.com
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.
To install VBTK, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm VBTK
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install VBTK
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.