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Monitoring Iguana

Programmatic access to Iguana status information and summary of event counters, as well as the ability to start and stop channels is available for automation. This method is implemented as a web request to the Iguana service and can be initiated either locally or remotely through any permitted network access.

When a status request is made Iguana attempts to return either a text or XML formatted response. The response contains information about Iguana's current status and its channels equivalent to the summaries of the Dashboard and Log pages. This allows the external process to analyze performance and activity by channel. This is useful for monitoring the overall health of Iguana and a means to implement additional automated alarm procedures, automated recovery and fail-over strategies. Simple scripting would allow incorporation into enterprise monitoring systems.

Two links are provided from the Advanced tab. One link requests the Channel Status Summary page in text format, while the other requests the same page in XML format.