I have a question about what a good design would be for a particular program
would be. This program checks a file that holds these contents, just more of
them:
107: kmemsize 2194616 3019086 15216913 16738604 0
lockedpages 0 0 743
743 0
privvmpages 13061 22723 207792
228571 0
shmpages 39 695 20779
20779 0
dummy 0 0 0
0 0
numproc 25 37 666
666 0
physpages 4097 7011 0
2147483647 0
108: kmemsize 2194616 3019086 15216913 16738604 0
lockedpages 0 0 743
743 0
privvmpages 13061 22723 207792
228571 0
shmpages 39 695 20779
20779 0
dummy 0 0 0
0 0
numproc 25 37 666
666 0
physpages 4097 7011 0
2147483647 0
etc...
The last column of this file is a "failcount" column. Every time there is an
error in a particular Virtual Private Server for the particular resource 1
is added to the fail count column. This is fine, so I wrote a simple perl
script that will periodically check the file for any non-zero values in the
failcount column and send me an email letting me know. This worked fine
until I realized some of the resources will get errors and this is fine. You
also can't reset the the failcount to zero until the host OS is reboot, so
I'm know getting an email everytime the program runs even though I am aware
of the errors that are in it and they are fine.
So my question is, What would be a good design to create a program that
would ignore certain resources of certain VPS's. The VPS's are the 107, 108
#'s of the example text above.
Ideally I would like to have two files, one an exclude file and another a
barrier file. In the exclude file I would have the VPS #'s and resources to
ignore, exp:
107:physpages,numproc
108:shmpages
and another file that I would put the acceptable failcount for a particular
VPS before I receive an email, exp:
108:physpages-28
But I'm not sure of a good way to handle this. Should I read the contents of
these files and load each line into it's own array? I was thinking of a hash
but each VPS {key} may have more than one value. Can I dynamically create
array's depending on how may lines I have in the exclude.txt file?
I'm not sure what kind of memory structure to use for this?
multi-dimensional array? hash?
How would some of you handle such a problem?
Thank you for any advice.
Romeo
