The Apache Agent gathers Apache status information from the server's server-status page. In order to gather this information, the agent requires that the server be correctly configured to display this status data. Typically this requires slight modifications to the Apache server's httpd.conf configuration file.
In Apache 2.x the following changes must be made to the configuration (you can uncomment a line in the configuration file by removing the preceding #)
· Uncomment LoadModule status_module modules/mod_status.so
· Uncomment ExtendedStatus On line for additional information
· Adjust the <Location /server-status> attribute to allow connections from the Agent Controller host
Once the server has been restarted, you should be able to query the server-status page with the URL http://yourservername/server-status. Ensure that you are able to query this page before attempting to gather information using the Apache Agent.
Once the server is set up and providing the data we can then launch the Apache agent to collect this data into the TPTP workbench. Firstly, in the Agent Tab select the Apache Server Status item. This will populate the Settings tab with the Apache specific variables.
The single Apache variable is that which provides the URL of the server-status page that the agent should query to gather information.
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