script to make a dashboard for our Engine

[Mahmoud Ihaddadene]

Good day,

We are runing Cloverleaf 6.1.3 under Aix 7.2 and we are trying to make a dashboard for our Cloverleaf engine using a script that will show status for all the connections (opening, up, down) and also accumulation for every thread without affecting the engine.

Any suggestion will be very welcome

Best Regards

Mahmoud

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[Peter Heggie]

Will the script be run on the command line and the dashboard is the output of the script, on the monitor display?

Will the script be a combination of shell scripting and TCL, or just shell scripting?

Will the output be copied to a database table?

Peter Heggie

[Mahmoud Ihaddadene]

Hi Peter,

The script TCL for example and shell scripting can be run on a cron job and save it on a MYSQL database and after somebody can query the table and have all the information on the Grafana Dashboard….

I know that Cloverleaf has an API, how can we use it ???

Thank you

 

 

[Peter Heggie]

We have not used the API yet. We rely on the existing command-line commands and trap the output, and then insert the data into a SQL Server table. However this is a generic statement – we do run commands, trap the output and insert the data to a table, but the commands are not for thread statistics, they are for something else.

If you have web service experience, I recommend you pursue the newer API (CLAPI), perhaps in a Java language, and include the JDBC logic in that program also.

But if not, you can trap output from command line commands. We use parent shell scripts that call TCL scripts. The TCL invokes DBLOOKUP, for tables defined in Cloverleaf. The parent script has to execute the setsite command first.

Peter Heggie

[James Cobane]

We have a script that we run every 5 minutes via a cron job that outputs stats to a .html file that is then ftp’d to a webserver where we have a main page that has links to each site’s .html file to display the information.  If a thread as a queue depth, the particular line is highlighted in red.   In the cron script, we simply setsite to each site, then run the command with the -w parameter to output the web page file (sitename.html).  Attached is the script; simply remove the .tcl extension.  Modify as you see fit for your use.

Here is the set of commands we run in the script for each site:

setroot
setsite hfhs4prod
hfhconnstatus -w > hfhs4prod.html

 

The output it produces (which as the html encoding in the .html file to display) is shown in the MS Word attachment

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