Radar technical information
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, Ubuntu, Debian, Mandrake, SuSE, etc), Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, SunOS, AIX, IRIX, SCO Open Server, Digital, HP-UX, etc.
- MacOS X
- Windows
Minimum system requirements
- Unix or Windows operating system
- Radiator 3.0 or later
- Perl 5.8.8 or later
- Tk 800.023 or later
- Approximately 10 MB of disk space