20steps/placetel-bundle (twentystepsPlacetelBundle)

About

The 20steps Placetel Bundle provides a Service-oriented API for Symfony2 applications that need to interact with the Placetel monitoring service.

For further information about Placetel goto http://www.placetel.de.

Features

• Placetel accessible as a configurable Symfony2 service.
• Complete API for Placetel.
• Configurable caching of responses to prevent surpassing rate limit.
• Provide some derived KPIs.
• Full documentation and some examples.
• Prepare for open sourcing of 20steps control.

Installation

Require the bundle by adding the following entry to the respective section of your composer.json:

"20steps/placetel-bundle": "dev-master"

Get the bundle via packagist from GitHub by calling:

php composer.phar update 20steps/placetel-bundle

Register the bundle in your application by adding the following line to the registerBundles() method of your AppKernel.php:

new twentysteps\Bundle\PlacetelBundle\twentystepsPlacetelBundle()

Register services provided by the bundle by adding the following line to the imports section of your config.yml:

- { resource: "@twentystepsPlacetelBundle/Resources/config/services.yml" }

Define the following properties in your parameters.yml:

• twentysteps_placetel.url - URL of the Placetel API - normally should point to "https://api.placetel.de/api/".
• twentysteps_placetel.api_key - API key of your account at Placetel.
• twentysteps_placetel.timeout - Timeout in seconds to apply on calls of the Placetel API - you should use 10.
• twentysteps_placetel.connect_timeout - Connect timeout in seconds to apply on calls to the Placetel API - you should use 5.
• twentysteps_placetel.cache_ttl - Cache TTL to apply on responses of the Placetel API - you should use 3600.

Usage

• Get reference to the Placetel service either by adding @twentysteps_placetel.service as a dependency in your service or by explicitely getting the service from the container during runtime e.g. by calling $this->get('twentysteps_placetel.service') in the action of your controller.
• Call any public function provided by Services/PlacetelService.php e.g. getServices() to get the monitoring services listed in Placetel.

Version

This version is not yet complete or usable.

Author

Helmut Hoffer von Ankershoffen (hhva@20steps.de).