I was also looking at writing a script to do the samer, however there is a great utility called HostMonitor that will perform 98% of what you want (www.ks-soft.net). Play around with it for a half day, see what you think.
Conor -----Original Message----- From: Ken Swift [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 28 June 2002 21:08 To: Perl Win32 List Subject: Should I use perl? I am having seconds, third and fourth thoughts about using perl to build an application. Here is a brief explaination about what I am trying to do. I am building a server monitoring program on Win32 using the WMI, HTTPLite, Net::Ping and IO::sockets. What happens is this. 1. Setup a group of different checks. For example Webservers would be a group then you assign individuals that should be notified if a error is detected with any "Check" in the group. 2. Setup the servers that belong to the group. Each server can be flagged online/offline, so that error are not reported if the server is not online. 3. Setup the checks that belong to a server. For example: Disk Spacer, Memory, HTTP Response Codes, Ping, TCP/IP port access, Service Status, Server Status and whether or not a section of text is found in a webpage. Each check is configured to repeat at a certain interval for example disk checks do not as often as service checks. As you can see...the multiplying factor can quickly add up. For example 2 Groups with 5 servers in each and 8 checks per server is 80 checks. I am storing all the configs in flat files, so that I could be database independent. Now...the problem. I open up a file that has all the checks in it and run each check in a fork() thread/process. Each check is in an infinite loop while(), so that it runs until the application is terminated. This entire application is a win32::daemon that runs as a service at server startup. I read somewhere that I can have a max of 64 fork() thread/processes. Is perl an OK language to do this application in or should I go down a different road? Thanks -- Ken __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised.if you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution, or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it is prohibited and may be unlawful. Please note that any views, opinions or advice contained in this email are those of the sending individual and not necessarily those of the firm. It is possible for data transmitted by e-mail to be deliberately or accidentally corrupted or intercepted. For this reason, where the communication is by e-mail, J&E Davy does not accept any responsibility for any breach of confidence which may arise from the use of this medium. If you have received this e-mail in error please notify us immediately at mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] and delete this e-mail from your system. _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
