Re: [twsocket] Nagios like communication

2014-06-25 Thread Florian Hector
which can be integrated into Nagios-compatible tools with the check_tcp plugin [1]. The OverbyteIcsTcpSrv.dpr ICS demo might be helpful as a starting point here. Tobias, which component can be used as client to talk to the above server component. Building an http server into my program

Re: [twsocket] Nagios like communication

2014-06-25 Thread Angus Robertson - Magenta Systems Ltd
which component can be used as client to talk to the above server component. Building an http server into my program sounds good but is way too much for what I need. Look at free Magenta Systems IP Log Streaming Component at: http://www.magsys.co.uk/delphi/magics.asp which is a high level

Re: [twsocket] Nagios like communication

2014-06-18 Thread Tobias Rapp
Florian Hector wrote: I would like to implement a new feature into one of my applications where I can ask for a status through a (VPN)network connection, kind of like Nagios does. Or maybe even build functionality into it so that it can be queried by Nagios. Which methods/components

Re: [twsocket] Nagios like communication

2014-06-10 Thread Angus Robertson - Magenta Systems Ltd
The linchpin of all this is, that the program itself is up and running, doesn't hang and that it can still response. Otherwise, days can go by and no data is recorded. I hope your application is already a Windows service, you can then make use of the various service restart options if it

Re: [twsocket] Nagios like communication

2014-06-09 Thread Florian Hector
Angus, Sorry, I should have explained better the first time. My application collects data from industrial PLC's via OPC, it is running on quite a number of clients which I cannot constantly check manually. I already have functions to detect failure conditions like no connection to the PLC or