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  PerlModule Apache::VMonitor

Or from the the startup file:

  use Apache::VMonitor();

You can alter the monitor reporting behavior, by tweaking the following configuration arguments from within the startup file:

  ::VMonitor::Config{BLINKING} = 1;
  ::VMonitor::Config{REFRESH}  = 0;
  ::VMonitor::Config{VERBOSE}  = 0;

You can control what sections are to be displayed when the tool is first accessed via:

  ::VMonitor::Config{SYSTEM}   = 1;
  ::VMonitor::Config{APACHE}   = 1;
  ::VMonitor::Config{PROCS}    = 1;
  ::VMonitor::Config{MOUNT}    = 1;
  ::VMonitor::Config{FS_USAGE} = 1;

You can control the sorting of the mod_perl processes report. You can sort them by one of the following columns: ''pid'', ''mode'', ''elapsed'', ''lastreq'', ''served'', ''size'', ''share'', ''vsize'', ''rss'', ''client'', ''request''. For example to sort by the process size the following setting will do:

  ::VMonitor::Config{SORT_BY}  = "size";

As the application provides an option to monitor other than mod_perl processes, you may set a regular expression to match the wanted processes. For example to match the process names which include httpd_docs, mysql and squid string, the following regular expression is to be used:

  ::VMonitor::PROC_REGEX = join "\|", qw(httpd_docs mysql squid);

We will discuss all these configuration options and their influence on the application shortly.

Multi-processes and system overall status reporting mode

The first mode is the one that mainly used, since it allows you to monitor almost all important system resources from one location. For your convenience you can turn on and off different sections on the report, to make it possible for reports to fit into one screen.

This mode comes with the following features.

Automatic Refreshing Mode

You can tell the application to refresh the report every few seconds. You can preset this value at the server startup. For example to set the refresh to 60 seconds you should add the following configuration setting:

  ::VMonitor::Config{REFRESH} = 60;


A 0 (zero) value turns automatic refreshing off.


When the server is started you can always adjust the refresh rate
using the application user interface.



top(1) Emulation: System Health Report





Just like top(1) it shows current date/time, machine up-time, average
load, all the system CPU and memory usage: CPU load, Real memory and
swap partition usage.


The top(1) section includes a swap space usage visual alert
capability. As we know swapping is very undesirable on production
systems. The system is said to be swapping, when it has used all of
its RAM and starts to page out unused memory pages to the slow swap
partition which slows the whole system down and may eventually lead to
the machine crush.