COM.volano.Status

COM.volano.Status captures real time status reports from the VolanoChat server. Before you use the Status module, you need to first set a password for admin.password in your properties.txt file. (For more information, see Server Properties (4.2))

SYNOPSIS

java COM.volano.Status [ options ]

DESCRIPTION

COM.volano.Status makes a network connection to the VolanoChat server and requests it to generate status reports at a regular interval. It formats and prints each status report received. See the Status Reports section for a complete description on how to modify the report formats.

Note that to find the Java class file, COM/volano/Status.class, you'll need either to have no CLASSPATH defined or to have the current working directory (".") included in the definition of your CLASSPATH environment variable.

OPTIONS

file: Specifies the path to the VolanoChat server properties file which defines the applications's configuration. If no file is specified, the application looks for its properties in a file called properties.txt in the current working directory.

APPLICATION PROPERTIES

The following properties are read by the status application from the VolanoChat server properties file:

server.host: specifies the name of the host running the VolanoChat server.
admin.port: specifies the port number at which the administrative subsystem of the VolanoChat server accepts administrative connections.
admin.password: defines the password required to make an administrator connection to the VolanoChat server.
status.interval: specifies the interval at which to receive the status reports.
format.date: gives the date format template to be used in formatting time stamps for the status reports.
format.status: gives the message format template to be used in formatting the status report messages.
format.status.memory: gives the message format template to be used in formatting the heap memory usage part of the status report.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

CLASSPATH

Used to provide the system a path to user-defined classes. Directories are separated by semicolons on Windows and colons on UNIX. For example, on UNIX you might have:

.:/usr/java1.1/lib/classes.zip

while on Windows, you might specify: