radar technical

 

 

Significant technical features in Radar

 

  • Full Perl source code supplied
  • Uses Perl and Tk for maximum portability
  • Monitor any number of Radiators with a single Radar
  • Radar checks for clock skew between itself and the monitored Radiators. Clock skew can mean that the host clocks are out of sync, which can mean inaccurate accounting data
  • Radar connections to Radiator are authenticated with CHAP, and can be authenticated with any standard Radiator authentication method that supports CHAP
  • Radar can be configured to remember its most recent configuration. The next time Radar is started it will monitor the same list of servers with the same tools
  • Detects server failure, crashes, disconnection, unavailability, stalling, hanging and excessive clock skew
  • Announces problems by email and/or external program and/or popup windows
  • Plot one or more statistics for the server as a whole or from individual Client, Realm, Handler, AuthBy or Host clause

 

Platforms Supported

 

  • Unix including Linux (RedHat, Debian, Mandrake, SuSE, etc), Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, SunOS, AIX, IRIX, SCO Open Server, Digital, HP-UX, etc.
  • MacOS X
  • Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000

 

Minimum System Requirements

 

  • Unix or Windows operating system
  • Radiator 3.0 or later
  • Perl 5.6.0 or later
  • Tk 800.023 or later
  • Approximately 2 Mb of disk space

 

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