4. Agents - Things that actually do something

Contents:

• 4.1. Overview
• 4.2. Interface
  • 4.2.1. Thread Interface
  • 4.2.2. Process Interface - Socket
  • 4.2.3. Process Interface - Pipe
  • 4.2.4. Process Interface - Encoding
• 4.3. Agent Interface Definition
  • 4.3.1. IDL format
• 4.4. Method Calls
  • 4.4.1. Python Dispatch
• 4.5. Daemon Agent
  • 4.5.1. loadAgent
  • 4.5.2. join
  • 4.5.3. leave
  • 4.5.4. ping
  • 4.5.5. putfile
  • 4.5.6. getfile
  • 4.5.7. IDL
• 4.6. Requesting Software
• 4.7. Logging Interface
• 4.8. Creating A Python Agent
  • 4.8.1. The Most Basic Agent
  • 4.8.2. Using DispatchAgent
  • 4.8.3. Using ReportingDispatchAgent
  • 4.8.4. TrafficClientAgent and SharedServer
  • 4.8.5. Roll Your Own
• 4.9. Stream Support
• 4.10. Conventions
  • 4.10.1. Triggers
  • 4.10.2. Data
• 4.11. Counters Agent
• 4.12. Generating HTTP Traffic
  • 4.12.1. http_wget
  • 4.12.2. apache