WWW Interface
patrol runs periodically (cron) on all hosts to be checked, no communication between hosts, no central information retrieval
WWW interface runs periodically on a single host (WWW server)
- gathers information on all hosts over a (configurable) period of time
- consists of a perl script (part of patrol) and Javascript HTML files (generated by patrol)
- provides both global view of the system, information on (configurable) subgroups and on individual hosts
- can also process and display data from other (monitoring) tools
see screen dump of our system in routine use