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Perl Monitors

Hi,

im sure that this is an obvious question to most. But do we have to run a perl installation on the Solarwinds server for any Perl Scripts to work.

Regards

Miron

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josh.clark

It depends on which Monitor Type you select. Windows Script Monitors run on the Orion Server. If you want to write your Windows Script Monitor scripts in perl then, yes, you'll have to install ActiveState's perl intepretter. (You can also write the script in VBScript or JScript, both of which are supported natively on Windows so there's nothing to install.

If you use a Linux Script Monitor, the script executes on the target node. You don't have to install perl on the Orion Server for these scripts. You just need the interpretter on the target node - your scripts can be in perl, PHP, Bash, whatever. As long as it is installed on the target Linux node.

Miron

Josh,

Thanks mate, I have found a Perl Radius Script which I want to test, otherwise Ill have to learn VBScript (and programming is not my strong suit:-)

Regards

Miron

Josh,

Apologies again if this is a dim question, if i run the perl script from the cmd line on the solarwinds server the script successfully tests user authentication against a radius server and returns a code to the cmd line. I notice that the windows script template allows you to define the script but not the expected return.

How does solarwinds typically know what it should be receiving after each poll?

Kind Regards

Miron

RogerWong

Window Scripts

Scripts must report their status by exiting with the appropriate exit code:

Exit Code	Meaning
0	Up
1	Down
2	Warning
3	Critical
Any other value	Unknown

Scripts report additional details by sending text to the script’s standard output. Each line of output can contain a single detail in the following format: DetailType:Value

Detail Type	Required	Meaning
Message	No	An error or information message to be displayed in the monitor status details.
Statistic	Yes	A numeric value used to determine how the monitor compares to its set thresholds.

Example output:

# Script output comment

Message: The directory contains too many files.

Statistic: 5

Miron

Roger,

I have altered the script that when run from the command line it outputs either:

Message: Success

Statistic: 0

Message: Success

Statistic: 1

when building the monitor in APM I have copied the script into the script body and replaced vbscript with perl.

At the moment this is failing do you know if there is anything else I have missed.

Regards

Miron

josh.clark

What is the error message it is failing with?

Miron

Josh/Roger,

info box

The return code is different to what is expected. The script returned status code down.

When I get back in to work i will check that the radius server is actually receiving requests when orion is running the script in the first place.

I have changed the script to only return the last two lines as suggested and changed the exit to exit 0,

Regards

Miron