[Vacm-features] hoover features

[Antonio W. C. <to...@vo...>]

Hi,                                  May 2, 2000

I have been experimenting with VACM 2.0.0 beta release, which
includes a GUI interface called hoover. It looks nice, and I
would like to suggest some features for future versions.

1) The "console" button doesn't seem to work properly. It
launches a blank window, and then my hoover GUI freezes.
I think the "console" button is not connecting to the 
correct tty port. Can this be fixed for the next version?

2) My nexxus process sometimes dies, and a lot of hoover
error messages appear on my console window because one of
the monitored machines crashes OR is rebooted purposely
without using hoover's "power down" or "reset" buttons.
I think nexxus should handle that more gracefully.

3) The "reset" button in hoover should be relabeled
"reboot"

4) Hoover should be on "continuous-update" mode when
running. When I powered-down one of the monitored nodes,
the status of that node on the hoover GUI still said
"RUNNING". This change would make it a more powerful 
tool.

5) Hoover should also provide another button called
"alarm-notify", with certain configuration options
(levels of alarms, send e-mail on alarm, bell on alarm, 
send a signal to a beeper on alarm, etc) for the user 
to choose. Again, this would make VACM a more powerful
monitoring tool. 

Cheers,

Tony