Theisen, Gary wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm obviously new to socket programming, so please bear
with me.
>
> Generically, I've got a situation where I would like to
write a PERL
> script to check 'network connectivity' between two
machines.
>
> A bit more specifically, I need to check the network
'health' or
> availability of a connection from a web server (Windows
2003R2) to a
> mainframe (IBM Z/os) and all the nodes or hops along
the way and have
> that check report back the statistics in a log file.
Basically a
> diagnostic script to try and determine where a problem
lies in the
> connection (i.e. a switch, a router, a firewall etc),
when there is a
> connectivity problem between the two. Something that
would take into
> account multiple (known) port number possibilities as
well.
>
> What PERL modules would be recommended to accomplish
this type of
> script? Are there any good tutorials or scripts that I
could use/modify
> that someone could point me to (hyperlink)? I would
like to try and
> learn this stuff, as apposed to copy and paste, but I'm
not really too
> sure where to start. I would really appreciate the
guidance here.
I think you should look at SNMP (Net::SNMP module) for this
type of
thing. If you had control of all of the machines in
question, you
could create your own socket server on each (IO::Socket,
IO::Select)
and do whatever you need to do, but that would be
re-inventing the
wheel pretty much.
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