Overview

The plugin monitor functionality in Traverse allows creating new monitors in Java or any other programming language such as C, perl, shell, etc. The system treats such plugin monitors as an integrated component of Traverse and provides a similar multi-threaded framework as it uses internally for its own monitors.

Each plugin monitor has an associated XML configuration file describing the test type, default thresholds and various display parameters. The configuration files are installed in the $TRAVERSE_HOME/plugin/monitors/ directory and the actual plugin monitor file is installed in a subdirectory under the plugin/monitors directory. The name of the subdirectory must match the monitor type specified in the configuration file.