Hi Guys,
I'm relatively new to Hyperic plugins and am trying to get my head around the whole thing.
I have written a basic plug-in that just executes the "Ping" command on windows or Unix, for the sake of witting a simple plug-in shell eg. the casing of a plug-in without much logic.
The current aim is to write a plug-in for a webapp, running in a Tomcat 5.5 container.
I considered writing a JMX MBean but this looks quite complicated, and above my understanding at this stage. So I would like to try writing a Hyperic plug-in that can read statistics from a CSV file (which I will get the webapp to generate and update at scheduled intervals eg. 5 min intevals etc.)
To start out I was hoping to find an example somewhere to help me out, and I managed to get a copy of the Zimbra plugin from here:
http://svn.hyperic.com/trunk/plugins/zimbra/?root=Hyperic+HQ
Looking through the plug-in's "hq-plugin.XML" file I noticed the line:
"<plugin type="collector" class="org.hyperic.hq.plugin.zimbra.ZimbraCollector"/>"
Looking at the page below:
http://support.hyperic.com/confluence/display/DOCSHQ31/Plugin+XML+Descriptor
I can only see 4 types of plug-in types available eg.
<config> Tag Attributes:
* type - The plugin type.
o product
o measurement
o control
o responsetime
Are there other plugin types that can be written that aren't documented? eg. collector etc.
Is this just a name that can be called anything, as long as it points to a java class that does something?
Can anyone help me out by providing comments, suggestions, tips, pointers, or links to useful documentation?
All help is really appreciated.
Regards,
Roger
I'm relatively new to Hyperic plugins and am trying to get my head around the whole thing.
I have written a basic plug-in that just executes the "Ping" command on windows or Unix, for the sake of witting a simple plug-in shell eg. the casing of a plug-in without much logic.
The current aim is to write a plug-in for a webapp, running in a Tomcat 5.5 container.
I considered writing a JMX MBean but this looks quite complicated, and above my understanding at this stage. So I would like to try writing a Hyperic plug-in that can read statistics from a CSV file (which I will get the webapp to generate and update at scheduled intervals eg. 5 min intevals etc.)
To start out I was hoping to find an example somewhere to help me out, and I managed to get a copy of the Zimbra plugin from here:
http://svn.hyperic.com/trunk/plugins/zimbra/?root=Hyperic+HQ
Looking through the plug-in's "hq-plugin.XML" file I noticed the line:
"<plugin type="collector" class="org.hyperic.hq.plugin.zimbra.ZimbraCollector"/>"
Looking at the page below:
http://support.hyperic.com/confluence/display/DOCSHQ31/Plugin+XML+Descriptor
I can only see 4 types of plug-in types available eg.
<config> Tag Attributes:
* type - The plugin type.
o product
o measurement
o control
o responsetime
Are there other plugin types that can be written that aren't documented? eg. collector etc.
Is this just a name that can be called anything, as long as it points to a java class that does something?
Can anyone help me out by providing comments, suggestions, tips, pointers, or links to useful documentation?
All help is really appreciated.
Regards,
Roger