Theisen, Gary wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm obviously new to socket programming, so please bear with me. > > Generically, I've got a situation where I would like to write a PERL > script to check 'network connectivity' between two machines. > > A bit more specifically, I need to check the network 'health' or > availability of a connection from a web server (Windows 2003R2) to a > mainframe (IBM Z/os) and all the nodes or hops along the way and have > that check report back the statistics in a log file. Basically a > diagnostic script to try and determine where a problem lies in the > connection (i.e. a switch, a router, a firewall etc), when there is a > connectivity problem between the two. Something that would take into > account multiple (known) port number possibilities as well. > > What PERL modules would be recommended to accomplish this type of > script? Are there any good tutorials or scripts that I could use/modify > that someone could point me to (hyperlink)? I would like to try and > learn this stuff, as apposed to copy and paste, but I'm not really too > sure where to start. I would really appreciate the guidance here.
I think you should look at SNMP (Net::SNMP module) for this type of thing. If you had control of all of the machines in question, you could create your own socket server on each (IO::Socket, IO::Select) and do whatever you need to do, but that would be re-inventing the wheel pretty much. _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
