[p4] P4 monitor show

[Albrecht, Matt]

What I did to help out users was make a "server health" page, which
sounds very similar to what you are trying to do.

I have a simple web page that presents the layout of the page, and has
server-side include tags in it where I want to show the monitor output
text.

I then tie my cron jobs that work on Perforce (like the checkpoint /
backup scripts) to generate a file of content to report its progress
(which gets included by the main page), and added another cron job that
reports simple server health output to another text file (also included
by the main page).

With this layout, it could be simple to add 'p4 monitor' output to
another file.  You just need to take care that the 'p4 monitor' cron job
only replaces the file after it generates its content.  Adding time
stamps makes this nice, too.

Since it sounds like you want to get fancy with this, you could turn
these individual files into XML feeds for AJAX use or whatever.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com 
> [mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of 
> Jamie.Echlin at barclayscapital.com
> Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 7:58 AM
> To: jeffjensen at upstairstechnology.com; perforce-user at perforce.com
> Subject: Re: [p4] P4 monitor show
> 
> > Another idea is to use P4Report tool and use a SQL approach.  
> > May be easiest
> > yet...
> 
> I was told that the p4report db drivers just run the equivalent p4
> commands to get the right data, so presumably they would have the same
> issue as anything else trying to communicate with the server 
> when it has
> "hung".
> 
> Cheers, jamie
> 
> >  
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com
> > [mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of
> > Jamie.Echlin at barclayscapital.com
> > Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 6:10 AM
> > To: perforce-user at perforce.com
> > Subject: [p4] P4 monitor show
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm trying to allow people to see current perforce activity, 
> > to that end
> > I've written an ajax web app which basically polls every 
> > couple of seconds
> > and shows the results.
> > 
> > However, as mentioned in the Google presentation:
> > http://versioncontrolblog.com/r/http://www.perforce.com/perfor
> > ce/confere
> > nces/eu/2006/presentations/Google.pdf, p4 monitor show -l can 
> > hang when it's
> > very busy. This does appear to happen, using the API I fail 
> > to run "monitor
> > show" (sorry no further error msgs).
> > 
> > However, the presentation also mentions that this might be 
> > fixed, anyone
> > know if it is? We're using version 2006.1/113344 (2006/12/21).
> > 
> > It suggests running another daemon and linking the db.monitor 
> > file to the
> > live one. This seems to indicate that when it's busy it does 
> > not fail to
> > update this table, just fails to connect or run "monitor show".
> > That being the case is it possible to have direct database 
> > access without
> > going through p4? Not sure how different it is from Berkeley db now.
> > 
> > Cheers, jamie
> > 
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