Re: [Pythoncard-users] What Project is a good one to start on?

[Lance H. <lh...@ha...>]

Hi Alex,

This is how the original app works. You enter all the server names and 
ipaddress for every Novell server on your network.
then you click the generate button and it creates a webpage that you 
can  host anywhere. ( I add it to my desktop ) This page show the latest 
status of the servers with traffic lights that are linked to the servers 
web management interface.

What the old app could not do was
1. run on anything but windows ( I use Linux and Mac) written in VB
2. import old pages to make changes (you had to recreate the page every 
time or edit the html)
3. allow automatic upload to a Intranet. (we have junior types that 
monitor the systems and let us know when things go wrong)

These are the three things that prompted me to start looking for a 
language that I could use to improve it. I tried PHP-GTK, PHP and then 
found PythondCard.

At a later stage I want to look at perhaps doing a network scan (Using 
NMAP) to find servers so that you don't have to manually enter each server.
For small sites it is easy to do this but for us we have over 150 servers.

So basically my new app should accomplish all this and be portable :-)

Not to optimistic I hope.

Lance

Alex Tweedly wrote:
> Lance Haig wrote:
>>
>> I was going to build an app that generates a webpage to display 
>> server status for Novell servers from a list of IP addresses and names.
>> I have been looking at the examples and I have seen your db browser 
>> and also the custdb sample.
>>
>> The custdb sample has helped me to create the GUI and also to 
>> populate the fields from a csv file. I have a problem that the app 
>> does not refresh the list properly and was wondering if I should use 
>> sqllite instead.
> Lance,
>
> a "dumb curiosity" question, if I may.  Why would you use sqlite (or 
> any database) for this app ?
> If what you are doing is displaying the current status, you shouldn't 
> need a db at all.
>
> On the other hand, if you have some other app filling in the db with 
> current status, while this one displays it - then it still sounds a 
> bit of an indirect path to use a db; if you want to explain the "big 
> picture" a bit more, we might be able to suggest a more direct technique.
>
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