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<revnumber>$Revision: 1.1 $</revnumber>
<date>$Date: 2006/03/14 16:36:39 $</date>
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</chapterinfo>
<title>User's Guide</title>
<section>
<title>Overview</title>
<para>
The <acronym>Statistics</acronym> module is a wrapper over the internal
statistics manager, allowing the script writer to dynamically define and
use of statistic variables.
</para>
<para>
By bringing the statistics support into the script, it takes advantage
of the script flexibility in defining logics, making possible
implementation of any kind of statistic scenario.
</para>
</section>
<section>
<title>Dependencies</title>
<section>
<title>&ser; Modules</title>
<para>
The following modules must be loaded before this module:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>No dependencies on other &ser; modules</emphasis>.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
</section>
<section>
<title>External Libraries or Applications</title>
<para>
The following libraries or applications must be installed before running
&ser; with this module loaded:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>None</emphasis>.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<title>Exported Parameters</title>
<section>
<title><varname>variable</varname> (string)</title>
<para>
Name of a new statistic variable. The name may be followed by additional
flag which describe the variable behavior:
</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>no_reset</emphasis> : variable cannot be reset.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<example>
<title>variable example</title>
<programlisting format="linespecific">
modparam("statistics", "variable", "register_counter")
modparam("statistics", "variable", "active_calls/no_reset")
</programlisting>
</example>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<title>Exported Functions</title>
<section>
<title>
<function moreinfo="none">update_stat(variable,value)</function>
</title>
<para>
Updates the value of the statistic variable with the new value.
</para>
<para>Meaning of the parameters is as follows:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para><emphasis>variable</emphasis> - variable to be updated
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><emphasis>value</emphasis> - value to update with; it may be
also negative
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>
This function can be used from REQUEST_ROUTE, BRANCH_ROUTE,
FAILURE_ROUTE and ONREPLY_ROUTE.
</para>
<example>
<title><function>update_stat</function> usage</title>
<programlisting format="linespecific">
...
update_stat("register_counter", "+1");
...
update_stat("active_calls", "-1");
...
</programlisting>
</example>
</section>
<section>
<title>
<function moreinfo="none">reset_stat(variable)</function>
</title>
<para>
Resets to zero the value of the statistic variable.
</para>
<para>
This function can be used from REQUEST_ROUTE, BRANCH_ROUTE,
FAILURE_ROUTE and ONREPLY_ROUTE.
</para>
<example>
<title><function>reset_stat</function> usage</title>
<programlisting format="linespecific">
...
reset_stat("register_counter");
...
</programlisting>
</example>
</section>
</section>
</chapter>
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