A small collection of utilities (and in some cases, scripts) useful in the adminstration of a WASD site.
Some are covered in greater detail in Features and Facilities document, Utilities and Facilities section.
Name | Source Code | Comment |
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Apache Bench | ab.c | This server stress-test and benchmarking tool, as used in the (rather older) Apache Distribution(s). Later versions cannot be utilised as they have increasing Apache source code dependencies. |
Calogs | calogs.c | Consolidate access logs (pronounced the same as the breakfast cereal brand :-) merges multiple HTTP server common and combined format access logs into a single log file with records in time-order. |
HTAdmin | htadmin.c | Command-line administration of the WASD .$HTA authentication databases. |
HTTPdMon | httpdmon.c | One of the fundamental tools for monitoring the status of the WASD server. This command-line utility continuously displays a number of key server process quotas, server counters and latest request data. |
Proxy Cache | pcache.c | This program can act as a command-line utility or CGI(plus)-compliant script. It is used to access the information about or contents of a WASD proxy cache file. |
Proxy Munge | proxymunge.c | Script that munges (rewrites) URIs/URLs to provide a more effective reverse-proxy. |
Quick and Dirty Log Statistics |
qdlogstats.c | Useful command-line and script utility to generate quick snapshots and elementary statistics of server usage from access logs. Intended for those moments when we think "I wonder how many times that new archive has been downloaded?", "How much data was transfered during November?", "How often is such-and-such a client using the authenticated so-and-so service?", "How much has the mail service been used?" ... and want the results in a matter of seconds (or at least a few tens of seconds :-) |
Random Seed | randseed.c | Small utility designed to populate a file with 2048 bytes of PRNG seed data. The seed should be high entropy. |
Security .ch Army Knife | sechan.c | (Pronounced "session") is used by SECURE.COM and associated procedures to ensure package file system security settings are appropriate. It is also available for direct use by the site administrator. |
WASD Bench | wb.c | An historical utility and analogue to Apache Bench used for similar purposes (testing, exercising and generating performance metrics). It also has the significant performance and granularity advantage of using the underlying $QIO services and not the socket API, and is AST event driven. |
Wot's Up? | wotsup.c | The WASD Over-The-Shoulder Uptime Picket is designed to monitor WASD in a production environment for the purpose of alerting operations staff to conditions which might cause that production to be adversely impacted. The utility runs in a detached process and monitors the server environment by periodically polling various server data. Alert reports can be delivered via any combination of OPCOM message, MAIL, site-specific DCL command, and log file entry. |
Name Revised Size Description
obj_vax/ 2-May-2014 14:23 512 subdirectory ab.c 2-May-2014 14:23 51,580 C source abcgi.com 2-May-2014 14:23 2,679 DCL procedure ab_ap_base64.c 2-May-2014 14:23 10,235 C source ap_config.h 2-May-2014 14:23 41,310 C header build_ab.com 2-May-2014 14:23 2,220 DCL procedure build_calogs.com 2-May-2014 14:23 1,664 DCL procedure build_htadmin.com 2-May-2014 14:23 1,584 DCL procedure build_httpdmon.com 2-May-2014 14:23 1,812 DCL procedure build_md5digest.com 2-May-2014 14:23 1,491 DCL procedure build_pcache.com 2-May-2014 14:23 1,870 DCL procedure build_proxymunge.com 2-May-2014 14:23 4,072 DCL procedure build_qdlogstats.com 2-May-2014 14:23 2,950 DCL procedure build_randseed.com 2-May-2014 14:23 1,449 DCL procedure build_sechan.com 2-May-2014 14:23 1,427 DCL procedure build_wb.com 2-May-2014 14:23 1,497 DCL procedure build_wotsup.com 2-May-2014 14:23 1,617 DCL procedure calogs.c 2-May-2014 14:23 26,724 C source enamel.h 2-May-2014 14:23 9,983 C header htadmin.c 2-May-2014 14:23 48,273 C source httpdmon.c 2-May-2014 14:23 101,530 C source pcache.c 2-May-2014 14:23 91,029 C source proxymunge.c 2-May-2014 14:23 53,929 C source qdlogstats.c 2-May-2014 14:23 161,367 C source randseed.c 2-May-2014 14:23 10,955 C source readme.html 2-May-2014 14:23 4,343 "Utility directory read-me" sechan.c 2-May-2014 14:23 70,694 C source streamlf.com 2-May-2014 14:23 1,174 DCL procedure wb.c 2-May-2014 14:23 81,462 C source wb_exercise.com 2-May-2014 14:23 1,447 DCL procedure wotsup.c 2-May-2014 14:23 90,934 C source wotsup.com 2-May-2014 14:23 2,158 DCL procedure