--- projects/cms/source/host/ihost-perl/ihost.pl	2001/12/18 06:07:00	1.45
+++ projects/cms/source/host/ihost-perl/ihost.pl	2002/03/21 17:57:13	1.47
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 # a typical Unix/Linux box.
 #
 # $Author: tdb $
-# $Id: ihost.pl,v 1.45 2001/12/18 06:07:00 tdb Exp $
+# $Id: ihost.pl,v 1.47 2002/03/21 17:57:13 tdb Exp $
 #------------------------------------------------------------
 
 $| = 1;
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ use vars qw (
              $pidfile
              $retry_wait
              $ostype
+             $key
              @data
             );
 
@@ -61,6 +62,7 @@ $pidfile .= "/.ihost.pid";
 &write_pid();
 
 &tcp_configure();
+&send_tcp_heartbeat();
 &send_udp_packet();
 
 $last_udp_time = time;
@@ -286,6 +288,7 @@ sub send_udp_packet() {
     push(@data, "packet.attributes.date $date");
     push(@data, "packet.attributes.type data");
     push(@data, "packet.attributes.ip $ip");
+    push(@data, "packet.attributes.key $key");
     
     # sort the data
     @data = sort(grep(!/^$/, grep(/^packet\./, @data)));
@@ -374,6 +377,9 @@ sub send_tcp_heartbeat() {
         return;
     }
     
+    print $sock "KEY\n";
+    $key = <$sock>;
+    
     print $sock "ENDHEARTBEAT\n";
     $response = <$sock>;
     if (!$response eq "OK\n") {
@@ -451,5 +457,15 @@ sub make_xml() {
                 return $xmltemp;
             }
         }
+	# dealing with a null value
+	elsif($curline =~ /^$curlevel([^\.\s]+)$/) {
+	    # simply adding a space makes the above elsif deal with it :)
+	    # just level with an empty tag in the XML
+	    $curline .= " ";
+	}
+	# failing all that, skip the line
+	else {
+	    $curline = "";
+	}
     }
 }