[Kmon-devel] Re: Kmon

[Frank D. <ke...@dr...>]

Op Tuesday 11 February 2003 23:33, schreef u:
> TODO.  I found the TODO, I swear I looked before I sent that last email.  
> Guess I was in the wrong directory.  I think I'll start off by changing
> logThis to logExtended (To get familuar with the code again)  Then I'll try
> to group hosts.  I would also like to have some default templates like web
> servers that would check http https ssh without having to add them each
> yourself.  

hi !!

(aha you're back)

well, this happent in the mean time:

- patrick s. vogt joined 2 days ago. kmon wasn't really alive before he 
joined, i did not do any work on  kmon between your patch (extinfo right ?) 
and before yesterday..

- herber hraeber sent a german translation and build system fixes

- patrick implemented kmonsystemtray.* stuff and fixed some other stuff

- and i started working on kmon again today (i fixed your extinfo patch, it 
works okay now)

and now we were thinking about a redesign of some parts of kmon, the idea is 
we want a hierarchic structure instead of a simple list...

* a 'host' has several roles - eg mailserver, webserver,... - , 

* that implies several monitors (http ping, ...) ... another possible 
abstraction is 'services'

* a host has several dependant hosts (eg mailserver depends on router, because 
if router is down, mailserver will not be reachable) just like the original 
mon

* this should all be possible without confusing the user, i don't think 
that'll be easy :) btw, i don't think the exact details of this all are 
totally clear yet (maybe patrick already has a clearer image, don't know).

another idea is getting rid of the awful config dialog (its confusing and 
buggy now) and doing everything in the main GUI (there will be a main tool 
bar with buttons like 'new host/...' , 'edit' , 'remove' 'disable' and so on)

btw, about the download links: aargh.. i'll fix them ASAP. there is more stuff 
on the page that ain't relevant anymore, will look into it

and btw, as a belgian i don't know anyting about employment in utah but i hope 
you'll find a solution soon :)

greetings,
frank

P.S. i put a tag (not branch) on current cvs (BEFORE_REWRITE_TAG) maybe we 
could put out a small kmon 0.3 maintenance with the fixed extinfo and the 
rmb, there is no official kde3.1 release neither, and so we have something 
before the rewrite starts ??

P.P.S you maybe want to join the just-created kmon-devel, see the lists page 
on our project or mail 'help' to kmo...@li.....