Advanced TCP Audit polling

The Advanced TCP/Audit Polling plugin monitor the availability and the performance of any networking application (client/server application).

The monitoring is performed by establishing simple TCP connections to the servers or by establishing a more complex dialogue.

These dialogues are based on dedicated script programs (Using LUA script language).

The completion status of the request(s) and the response time are used to warn the administrator of defaults and to establish quality of service reports.

The plugin display the current polling status and can display (with a single click on the graph icon) the response time value of the last 100 requests.

Installing the plugin

To install the plugin you should proceed as follow: Select a host in the LoriotPro directory and call its contextual menu with a right mouse click.

Select the Task option first then the Advanced TCP/Audit Polling option of the second menu.

An alternate way consits of using the host property and the Advanced Polling tab.

Configuring the plugin "Advanced TCP Audit polling"

To configure the plugin use the contextual menu and select the Properties option.

Or click on the properties icon

The configuration dialog box is displayed

The minimum configuration steps are:

1. Select the Polling Type "TCP connect"
2. Choose a polling interval
3. Check the Enable Process box
4. In the TCP Connect area, select a TCP port number in the list box or enter it as a number directly.

Common application TCP ports are available in the configuration dialog box. In the following list you will find the most frequently used.

Some options are available at this configuration step.

The SLA Collect check box enables the gathering of data for the calculation of the quality of service level. Responses to the requests sent by the TCP polling process will be stored in history files. The history files can be used later on to create QOS reports with the SLA Report Center plugin or with the SLA scripting functions

Sending of an alarm (Loriotpro Event) on successful or unsuccessful connection.

1. Choose an existing event number for this alarm or create a new one with the Wizard.
2. Choose a severity level with the AT Level option. The severity defines the color of the message in the event log window.
3. Choose the condition to match before sending an event (TCP port number status is Up or Down)

here under an example of setting on a :

• Database server MYSQL (Port TCP 3306)

With an alarm set (Event 103306)

The event is generated at each polling without answer.

Monitoring and auditing with scritping

The owners of a LoriotPro Extended Edition can monitor and audit any application or system with the Audit Process feature.

The Audit Process of LoriotPro can launch audit and monitoring programs that can perform any kind of availability or performance checking.  

These programs are written with the LUA script language embedded in LoriotPro. Audit and monitoring programs are available and you can extend the list with your own program.
A programmer’s manual is dedicated to the scripting language and the way of writing your own monitoring program.

To add a new monitoring program the polling type selected should be Audit Process. The fields of the Audit Process area in the dialog box will be automatically activated.

The minimum configuration steps are:

• Select the Polling Type "Audit process"
  
• Choose a polling interval
  
• Check the Enable Process box
  
• In the Audit Process area, select a script program number in the Audit Ref field.
  
• In the Parameter field enter the required parameter.

Click on the Wizard button to open the script selector or enter the program number if you already know it.

The selected script number is displayed in the Audit Ref Field

The Parameters field displays a text explaining what value is expected from the script, in this example the threshold value used fro triggering an event.

Audit Title displays the description of the script.

You can add options with:

Generate Audio

Generate Reporting

Generate Graph