On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Greg Marr wrote:
> At 02:50 PM 06/07/2001, Greg Stein wrote:
> >On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 09:43:24AM -0700, Ian Holsman wrote:
> >>I was wondering if it would be usefull if there was some kind of
> >>'status' hook which modules could implement to tell management apps
> >>(mod_snmp/mod_status) what is going on inside of them.
> >>
> >>it would return an array name/value pairs, which the management
> >>module could convert into a fancy table layout on the status page,
> >>or a group of SNMP OID's this would allow a module designer not to
> >>mess with mod_status, and maybe a way of getting the scoreboard
> >>code out of mod_status
> >
> >The current design is for mod_status to *pull* the information when
> >it is needed. Considering that pulling is *much* less frequent than
> >status changes, this is much more efficient for the system. (a
> >status hook is a *push*)n
>
> It could be implemented as something that mod_status calls when it
> needs the status. If it's done in the core, then any management app
> could use it.
>
> Something like ap_get_server_status(char **data, int *data_size);
> which calls a server_status hook that modules that care about this
> stuff can implement.
How is this any different than the scoreboard? It really sounds to me
like we are trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist. The scoreboard
does whbat we need, what is the problem with it?
Ryan
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