Introduction
The front end of the terapaths netflow monitoring software is based upon a set of perl cgi 'backend' scripts with a javascript/ajax 'frontend'.
This document details the scripts and functionality of this frontend.
Overview
The following tree shows all the related files to the terapaths netflow frontend.
[ytl@iepmbw:/opt/netflow]$ tree
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|-- lib
| `-- IEPM
| `-- Netflow
| |-- Display
| | |-- PieChart.pm
| | |-- SpiderChart.pm
| | |-- Table
| | | |-- CSV.pm
| | | `-- HTML.pm
| | |-- Table.pm
| | |-- TimeSeriesGraph.pm
| | `-- spider.pm
| |-- Display.pm
| |-- List.pm
| |-- Parameters.pm
| |-- RRDGraph
| | |-- Group.pm
| | |-- Hybrid.pm
| | `-- Single.pm
| `-- RRDGraph.pm
`-- www
|-- cgi
| |-- netflow-graph.cgi
| |-- netflow-piechart.cgi
| |-- netflow-protocols.cgi
| |-- netflow-show.cgi
| |-- netflow-spiderchart.cgi
| |-- netflow-table.cgi
| `-- netflow-targets.cgi
`-- html
|-- calendar-setup.js
|-- calendar.js
|-- graph.html
|-- images
| |-- arrow.png
| |-- minus-last.gif
| |-- minus.gif
| |-- node-last.gif
| |-- node.gif
| |-- plus-last.gif
| `-- plus.gif
|-- index.html
|-- netflow.css
|-- netflow.js
|-- protocols.html
|-- prototype-1.4.0.js
`-- targets.html
The code is based upon a set of perl modules under the lib directory from which the perl cgi scripts under www/cgi rely upon. It is therefore important to put the lib path under your apache configuration.
The files under www/html are the files for the frontend of this package. They are files which will be downloaded by web clients wishing to visualise the netflow monitoring.
In particular, netflow.js contains all the fat-client code for the ajax calls to the various cgi scripts which will be run on the apache server.
Apache Configuration
# terapaths monitoring netflow html files and scripts AddType application/xhtml+xml .xhtml AddType application/xml .xml AddType text/xml .xml AddType image/svg+xml .svg AliasMatch /netflow/(.*).html "/opt/terapaths-monitoring/www/html/$1.html" AliasMatch /netflow/(.*).xhtml "/opt/terapaths-monitoring/www/html/$1.xhtml" AliasMatch /netflow/(.*).js "/opt/terapaths-monitoring/www/html/$1.js" AliasMatch /netflow/(.*).css "/opt/terapaths-monitoring/www/html/$1.css" AliasMatch /netflow/images/(.*) "/opt/terapaths-monitoring/www/html/images/$1" ScriptAliasMatch /netflow/(.*).cgi "/opt/terapaths-monitoring/www/cgi/$1.cgi" # set up paths for IEPM modules SetEnv PERL5LIB /opt/netflow/lib/:/opt/iepm/lib/
CGI Scripts
Script |
Description |
|---|---|
netflow-show.cgi |
Returns code for the right hand main pane of the webpage, in particular it contains the layout code for the tables and graphs to be displayed. |
netflow-graph.cgi |
Displays a timeseries graph of the supplied information through POST/GET/command line using RRDGraph |
netflow-table.cgi |
Displays a HTML table of statistics given the supplied information through POST/GET/command line |
netflow-targets.cgi |
Supplies a HTML list (of treeview class) of all hosts found in the XML configuration file |
netflow-protocols.cgi |
Supplies a HTML list (of treeview class) of the services, protocols or type of servies |
Libaries
Module |
Description |
Inherits From |
|---|---|---|
IEPM::Netflow::Parameters |
Bean class of specific parameters to be passed between teh client and server to determine what to display |
IEPM::CGI |
IEPM::Netflow::List |
Determines the mapping of supplied Parameter information to the physical location of RRD data on the system |
|
IEPM::Netflow::RRDGraph |
Base class to handle the generation of graphs using the RRDGraph/RRDTools package |
|
IEPM::Netflow::RRDGraph::Single |
Inherited class to deal with the plotting of simple single RRD files |
IEPM::Netflow::RRDGraph |
IEPM::Netflow::RRDGraph::Group |
Inherited class to deal with the plotting of multiple groupings of RRD files as a single entity |
IEPM::Netflow::RRDGraph |
IEPM::Netflow::RRDGraph::Hybrid |
Composite pattern for the management of both the Single and Group Classes |
IEPM::Netflow::RRDGraph |
IEPM::Netflow::Display |
Class to handle the display of RRDGraph information |
|
IEPM::Netflow::Display::TimeSeriesGraph |
Displays timeseries information from RRD data |
IEPM::Netflow::Display |
IEPM::Netflow::Display::Table |
Displays tabular information from RRD data |
IEPM::Netflow::Display |
IEPM::Netflow::Display::Table::HTML |
Displays tabular information from RRD data in HTML format |
IEPM::Netflow::Display::Table |