I am really new to perl but I am willing to learn. I have to write a perl script to monitor the web server ( and considering chat as well), and database server. The OS for all is Linux and the db is MySQl (/PHP). Now, I have drafted out something from a lot of ideas I have gathered around but it is still not making the expected result...Please please help me. Below is the script:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict:

#   my_history =(
#       'httpd_alert_time' => 0,
#       'httpd_alive_time' => 0,
#
#
#
#   );


sub check_url {  # subroutine who check given URL
    my $target = $_[0];
        my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
        $ua->agent("$0/0.1 " . $ua->agent);
        my $req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => "$target");
        $req->header('Accept' => 'text/html');          #Accept HTML P
+age
        # send request
        my $start = time;      # Start timer
        my $res = $ua->request($req);
        # check the outcome
        if ($res->is_success) {# Success....all content of page has be
+en received
          my $time = time;     # End timer
          my $out_format;
          $time = ($time - $start); # Result of timer
          if ($response_limit && ($response_limit <= $time)) {
             push(@errors, "Slow response from $target\: $time seconds
+");
             $out_format = sprintf "| %-50.50s %-10s %-20s |\n", $targ
+et, "SLOW", "Response $time seconds";
          } else {
             $out_format = sprintf "| %-50.50s %-10s %-20s |\n", $targ
+et, "ACCESSED", "Response $time seconds";
          }
          print OUT $out_format; # write to file
          print $out_format;     # print to console
        } else {                 # Error .... Site is DOWN and script 
+send e-mail to you..
          my $out_format = sprintf "| %-50.50s %-10s %-20s |\n", $targ
+et, "DOWN", " N/A";
          push(@errors, "$target is DOWN." . $res->status_line) or err
+or("Cannot push error for DOWN");
          print OUT $out_format; # write to file
          print $out_format;     # print to console
    }


}
dbmopen(%history, '/home/onome/monitor', 0666);

my $alive = %check_httpd();

if ($alive) {
       $history{'httpd_alive_time'} = time();
       
       }
       else {
       my $dead_time = time()- $history{'httpd_alive_time'};
       if ($dead_time> 30) {
       %send_alert("httpd has been dead for $dead_time seconds");
       
       }
       
       }
       
       
       dbmclose(%history);
       
# if httpd is up, then status return should be TRUE
sub check_httpd {

    my $alive = rand(10);
    return ($alive < 1) ? 0: 1;

}

# if database is up, then status return should be TRUE
sub check_database {

    my $alive = rand(10);
    return ($alive < 1) ? 0: 1;

}

  
# if chat is up, then status return should be TRUE
sub check_chat {

    my $alive = rand(10);
    return ($alive < 1) ? 0: 1;
    
}
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